Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Discovering Shakespeare’s Meaning
✍ Scribed by Leah Scragg (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 243
- Series
- Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Verse and Prose....Pages 1-30
Imagery and Spectacle....Pages 31-60
Shakespeare’s Expositions....Pages 61-85
Plays within Plays....Pages 86-113
Parallel Actions....Pages 114-142
The Treatment of Character....Pages 143-175
The Use of the Soliloquy....Pages 176-202
Art and Artifice....Pages 203-228
Conclusion: Discovering Shakespeare’s Meaning....Pages 229-231
Back Matter....Pages 232-234
✦ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics
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