1st Edition

Shakespeare and the Confines of Art

By Philip Edwards Copyright 1968
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1968. By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The work which the author sees Shakespeare striving to create is the perfect fusion of comedy and tragedy and he suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of... Read more
1. The Contrary Valuations 2. The Sonnets to the Dark Woman 3. Love's Labour's Lost 4. The Abandon'd Cave 5. Romeo and Juliet 6. Hamlet 7. The Problem Plays (i) 8. The Problem Plays (ii) 9. The Jacobean Tragedies 10. Last Plays

Biography

Philip Edwards