Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. HibbardJack Cooper Gray University of Toronto Press, 01.10.1984 - 326 Seiten George Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars. The two essays which begin the collection present broad overviews of Elizabethan drama and discuss Shakespeare's first great editor, Theobald. Together with the final essay – on publication and performance in early Stuart drama – these form the frame of the mirror held up to Shakespeare in the other eighteen essays, whether they of general themes running through some or all of Shakespeare's plays or the plays his contemporaries, or whether they treat of specific plays. There is an especially rich concentration on Macbeth and Coriolanus. |
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... exhibit the literary bias of his dramatic criticism at this time. He quotes more than once the same great speech from The Revenger's Tragedy, and one suspects that here too he is much less interested in the drama as a whole than in the ...
... less detachable poetic speeches.4 As early as 1919 Eliot had spoken of the way Elizabethan drama had ' ... grown away from the rhetorical expression , the bombast speeches of Kyd and Marlowe to the subtle and dispersed utterance of ...
... less wicked than the people they cheat . So Eliot's idea of Middleton's impersonality and facelessness cannot be substantiated ; and this opinion is the more surprising when juxtaposed with the statement that ' Chapman has become a ...
... less about Shakespeare's failing as a purveyor of philosophical commonplaces and more about the impressiveness of his total oeuvre , in which each play illuminates the whole and the whole illuminates each play . In particular perhaps ...
... less to Henry VI , which could not all be by Shakespeare . He wished his friend ' A long and happy train of New Years . ' On the histories Theobald agreed with Dryden in his Dramatick Poesy about Shakespeare's telescoping of his ...
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