Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: Collected EssaysFirst published in 1972. Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation and the structure and theme of the plays. Other essays cover Shakespeare's use of the messenger's report, his handling of the theme of appearance and reality and the basic characteristics of Shakespearian drama. |
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Contents
Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Hamlet Othello | 11 |
Shakespeares Use of the Messengers Report | 96 |
Past and Future in Shakespeares Drama | 124 |
Shakespeares Soliloquies | 147 |
Appearance and Reality in Shakespeares Plays | 163 |
Shakespeare and the Modern World | 189 |
Characteristic Features of Shakespearian Drama | 198 |
How to Read a Shakespeare Play | 214 |
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action anticipation Antony appearance and reality art of preparation audience become beginning Brutus characters comedies connexion contrast conventions critics death deception Desdemona devices dialogue disguise dramatic art dramatic preparation dramatist dream effect elements Elizabethan example expectations expression fact feeling foreboding function ghost Hamlet Henry Henry IV Henry VI histories Iago imagery imaginative inner irony Julius Caesar King Lear L. C. Knights language later lines London look means messenger messenger's report messenger's speech Midsummer Night's Dream mind monologue murder narrative night Othello passages past and future play's plot poetic present prophecies Prospero reader reality and appearance reveal Richard Richard III role Romeo and Juliet scene Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's art Shakespeare's dramatic Shakespeare's plays significance situation soliloquy stage structure T. S. Eliot technique of preparation tension theme Theseus thou tion tragedy Twelfth Night utterances warning words