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Modern Shakespearean criticism : essays on style, dramaturgy, and the major plays
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Modern Shakespearean criticism : essays on style, dramaturgy, and the major plays

Author: Alvin B Kernan
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, ©1970.
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Kernan, Alvin B.
Modern Shakespearean criticism.
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1970]
(OCoLC)654219190
Named Person: William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alvin B Kernan
OCLC Number: 72603
Description: xi, 447 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation / G. Wilson Knight --
Planes of reality / S.L. Bethell --
Development of Shakespeare's imagery: introduction / Wolfgang Clemen --
Life of our design: the function of imagery in the poetic drama / Alan S. Downer --
How many children had Lady Macbeth? / L.C. Knights --
Nature of plot in drama / Una Ellis-Fermor --
Emotion of multitude / William Butler Yeats --
Verbal drama / John Russell Brown --
Shakespeare's sonnets and the 1590's / Patrick Cruttwell --
Profession of playwrights / R.A. Foakes --
Argument of comedy / Northrop Frye --
"A midsummer night's dream": structure / David P. Young --
"As you like it" / Helen Gardner --
The merchants and the Jew of Venice: wealth's communion and an intruder / C.L. Barber --
"Twelfth night" and the morality of indulgence / John Hollander --
The Henriad: Shakespeare's major history plays / Alvin B. Kernan --
Form and formality in "Romeo and Juliet" / Harry Levin --
"Julius Caesar" / Maynard Mack --
Hamlet: the prince or the poem / C.S. Lewis --
"Troilus and Cressida" / Robert Ornstein --
Jacobean Shakespeare: some observations on the construction of the tragedies / Maynard Mack --
"Othello": an introduction / Alvin B. Kernan --
"King Lear" or "Endgame" / Jan Kott --
Naked babe and the cloak of manliness / Cleanth Brooks --
"Antony and Cleopatra": a Shakespearean adjustment / John Danby --
Last plays of Shakespeare / D.A. Traversi.
Responsibility: edited by Alvin B. Kernan.
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