Présentation de l'éditeur
Shaksperean literature, there is, so far as I am aware, no English work dealing in some detail with all the dramatists writings in their approximate chronological order. The present volume is an attempt in this direction. Professor Dowden sfine study of Shakspere sM ind and A rt, to which my debt is manifest, is, by virtue of its scope, most intimately concerned with the historical plays and the tragedies, and especially with those elements in them which help to reveal the personality of their author. What I have here aimed at is to discuss Shakspere sworks in relation to their sources, to throw light on their technique and general import, and to bring out some of their points of contact with the literature of their own and earlier times. Hence in the opening chapters I have sketched the rise of theE nglish drama, and have briefly indicated Shakspere sbond of kinship, not only with his immediate predecessors, but with the mediaeval playwrights. And throughout the volume I have given greater prominence than has, I think, been usual to those features in his works which link them to the preR enaissance period.
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