1st Edition

Returning to Shakespeare

By Brian Vickers Copyright 1989
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays’ reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickers’ work from the previous fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form. The first part of the book focuses on the connection between a work’s structural or formal... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Returning to Shakespeare: An Autobiographical Preface.  Part 1: Forms and Meanings  1. Rites of Passage in Shakespeare’s Prose  2. ‘Mutual Render’: I and Thou in the Sonnets  3. Shakespeare’s Hypocrites  4. Coriolanus and the Demons of Politics  Part 2: Shakespeare and His Critics  5. The Emergence of Character Criticism, 1774-1800  6. Shakespearean Adaptations: The Tyranny of the Audience  7. Shakespeare. ‘A National Asset’  8. Tribute to a Scholar-Critic.  Index.

Biography

Brian Vickers