Shakespearean Meanings / / Sigurd Burckhardt.
Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable. Shakespeare not only abides our qu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- I. HOW NOT TO MURDER CAESAR
- II. THE POET AS FOOL AND PRIEST: A DISCOURSE ON METHOD
- III. "I AM BUT SHADOW OF MYSELF": CEREMONY AND DESIGN IN I HENRY VI
- IV. SHAKESPEARE, PEELE, AND THE KING OF SCOTS
- V. KING JOHN: THE ORDERING OF THIS PRESENT TIME
- VI. "SWOLL'N WITH SOME OTHER GRIEF": SHAKESPEARE'S PRINCE H A L TRILOGY
- VII. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: THE GENTLE BOND
- VIII. KING LEAR: THE QUALITY OF NOTHING
- IX. THE KING'S LANGUAGE: SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA A S SOCIAL DISCOVERY
- APPENDIX: NOTES ON THE THEORY OF INTRINSIC INTERPRETATION
- INDEX