Synopses & Reviews
The study and criticism of Shakespeare has always been of major interest in the literary world but never more than in the last ten years. The essays in this volume explore Shakespeare's art that is complementary to the experience of his plays. The feelings of the essays create a sensitive atmosphere for creative study.
Table of Contents
Lucrece! What hath your conceited painter wrought? / Elizabeth Traux -- Antony and Cleopatra: Circe, Venus and the Whore of Babylon / Clifford Davidson -- Be stone no more: Italian cinquecento art and Shakespeare's last plays / Frederick O. Waage -- Feudal and bourgeois concepts of value in The Merchant of Venice / Burton Hatlen -- King Lear and the social dimension of Shakespearean tragic form, 1603-1608 / Walter Cohen -- Cracking the code of The Tempest / Lorie Jerrell Leininger -- Contrary comparisons in The Tempest / Maurice Hunt -- Shakespeare's creation of a fit audience for The Tempest / Jean E. Howard -- The Shakespearean metastance: the perspective of The Tempest / James P. Driscoll -- Telling the magician from the magic in The Tempest / Barbara L. Estrin.