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An essay on Shakespeare's relation to tradition / by Janet Spens.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PR2952 .S6 1916
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spens, Janet, 1876-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Philosophy.
- Tragedy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 102 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Shakespeare's relation to tradition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : B.H. Blackwell, 1916.
- Contents:
- The effect of tradition in poetry
- Comedy: Types of comedy before Shakespeare. Evidence of the influence of Munday on Shakespeare leading up to Shakespeare's use of the folk-play. The traces of folk-plays in Shakespeare's drama
- Tragedy and conclusion: The Greek tragic hero. The pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean tragic hero to the earliest Hamlet. Honour the subject of Elizabethan tragedy. Shakespeare's rejection of the superman. Post-Shakespearean tragedy still occupied with the same conception in a narrower form. The later Hamlet and King Lear. Conclusion: The individual is essentially tragic; consolation is only possible when we regard all life as one.
- OCLC:
- 975854
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