The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and CleopatraThe opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon. |
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A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra Ernest Schanzer. Shakespeare was up to. And a further kind of problem which he finds in the four plays is one of classification. 'Dramas so singular in theme and temper ...
A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra Ernest Schanzer. Shakespeare was up to. And a further kind of problem which he finds in the four plays is one of classification. 'Dramas so singular in theme and temper ...
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A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra Ernest Schanzer. PREFACE THIS BOOK has been written out of a feeling of acute dis- satisfaction — which I share with many students of Shakespeare —with the common grouping ...
A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra Ernest Schanzer. PREFACE THIS BOOK has been written out of a feeling of acute dis- satisfaction — which I share with many students of Shakespeare —with the common grouping ...
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... of interpreting so complex a play , above all of discovering the relation of the war - plot to the love - story ( p . 37o ) . It presents the reader with a problem in the sense of ' a difficulty ' of understanding what Shakespeare was up to ...
... of interpreting so complex a play , above all of discovering the relation of the war - plot to the love - story ( p . 37o ) . It presents the reader with a problem in the sense of ' a difficulty ' of understanding what Shakespeare was up to ...
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... the group but also in using the term Problem Play much more broadly and ambiguously than Lawrence had done . But , unlike Boas , Tillyard is very much aware of the vague and varied way in which he uses the term . For only by failing to ...
... the group but also in using the term Problem Play much more broadly and ambiguously than Lawrence had done . But , unlike Boas , Tillyard is very much aware of the vague and varied way in which he uses the term . For only by failing to ...
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... with moral problems of varying degrees of perplexity — rather than the concern with Commodity , of which some critics have made far too much as the supposed unifying theme of King John — that seems to me above all to lend the play coherence ...
... with moral problems of varying degrees of perplexity — rather than the concern with Commodity , of which some critics have made far too much as the supposed unifying theme of King John — that seems to me above all to lend the play coherence ...
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