✍ Scribed by Maurice A. Hunt (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth....Pages 9-48
Holding Up Drama as an “Ideal” Mirror in Hamlet and The Life of King Henry the Fifth....Pages 49-97
Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly’s Comedies....Pages 99-125
Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in Love’s Labor’s Lost....Pages 127-150
A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night’s Dream....Pages 151-179
Mirroring the Earl of Southampton in All’s Well That Ends Well....Pages 181-204
Conclusion....Pages 205-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-263
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature; Theatre and Performance Studies
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