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A wide-ranging survey of critical responses to Shakespeare's
masterpiece. The Merchant of Venice has always been one of
Shakespeare's most popular plays. However, the critical tradition
reveals sharply divided opinions, reflecting the tremendous
capacity of the play to provoke discussion among its readers and
audiences. This volume collects the work of over seventy
commentators writing between 1775 and 1939 (when the first signs of
Nazi anti-Semitism are noted). They include well-known critics and
scholars, such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, Furnivall, Brandes, Moulton,
Stoll, Spurgeon, Wilson Knight and Middleton Murry, but also
little-known writers who addressed the Jewish issues in the play
with some authority: George Farren, Israel Davis, Sidney Lee,
Charles Salaman, 'El Seyonpi', F. S. Boas, Israel Gollancz, Gerald
Friedlander, and Cecil Roth. In addition, reflecting the play's
great popularity in the theatre, this collection documents four
celebrated interpretations of Shylock (Macklin, Kean, Edwin Booth,
and Henry Irving), and two of Portia (Helen Faucit, Ellen Terry).
First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of
1979. The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed
study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the
different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave
to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic
devices used in his prose. The general and particular application
of prose is then studied through all the plays, in roughly
chronological order.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and
researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early
performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first
publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range
from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and
contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and
diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are
also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an
author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the
writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of
works, authors and subjects. "The Critical Heritage" is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
"The Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters
and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are
also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an
author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the
writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of
works, authors and subjects. "The Critical Heritage" is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
Series Information: The Critical Heritage Series
This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series
increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been
received and understood by critics, editors and general readers.
The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions
about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their
positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The
chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers
in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a
critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern
theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean
criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to
century.
Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare
criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the
plays' reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection
represents the best of Brian Vickers' work from the previous
fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form. The first part of
the book focuses on the connection between a work's structural or
formal properties and our experience of it. A new study of the
Sonnets shows how personal relationships are literally embodied in
personal pronouns. An essay on Shakespeare's hypocrites (Richard
III, Iago, Macbeth) analyses the uncomfortable intimacy established
between them and the audience by means of soliloquies and asides.
Another traces the interplay between politics and the family in
Coriolanus, two forms of pressure which combine to push the hero
outside society. In the second part Professor Vickers examines some
key episodes in the history of Shakespeare criticism. One essay
reviews the persistence of drastically altered adaptations of
Shakespeare on the London stage from the 1690s to the 1830s, due to
the conservatism of both theatre managers and audience. Another
reconstructs the debate over Hamlet's character in the last quarter
of the eighteenth century, in which the Romantic image of a hero
lacking control of his faculties emerged for the first time. This
is an important collection by an outstanding Shakespeare critic
which will interest specialists and general readers alike.
First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of
1979.
The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of
the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different
dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose
and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices
used in his prose. The general and particular application of prose
is then studied through all the plays, in roughly chronological
order.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
Brian Vickers addresses the fundamental issues of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works. Through a new examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we associate with Shakespeare. He identifies the poet and dramatist John Ford as the actual author of the Elegye.
This six volume set covers critical perspective on Shakespeare from
1623 throught to 1801. The Critical Heritage gathers together a
large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each
volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully
selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of
criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little
published documentary material such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also
included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's
reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's
published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works,
authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage set will be available
as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in
mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual
volumes.
When Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A
Lover's Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, who
was notorious for several irregular publications. Many scholars
have doubted its authenticity, but recent editions of the Sonnets
have accepted it as Shakespeare's work. Now Vickers, in this text,
the first full study of the poem, shows it to be un-Shakespearian
both in its language and in its attitude to women. It is awkwardly
constructed and uses archaic Spenserian diction, including many
unusual words that never occur in Shakespeare. It frequently
repeats stock phrases and rhymes, distorts normal word order far
more often and more clumsily than Shakespeare did, while its
attitude to female frailty is moralizing and misogynistic. By close
analysis Vickers attributes the poem to John Davies of Hereford
(1565-1618), a famous calligrapher and writing-master who was also
a prolific poet. Vickers' book will re-define the Shakespeare
canon.
'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of
what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In
recent years his authorship has been claimed for two poems, the
lyric 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have
been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works
but Brian Vickers argues that both attributions rest on superficial
verbal parallels; both use too small a sample, ignore negative
evidence, and violate basic principles in authorship studies.
Through a fresh examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers
shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities
we associate with Shakespeare. In other words, they are
'counterfeits', in the sense of anonymously authored works wrongly
presented as Shakespeare's. He argues that the poet and dramatist
John Ford wrote the Elegye: its poetical language (vocabulary,
syntax, prosody) is indistinguishable from Ford's, and it contains
several hundred close parallels with his work. By combining
linguistic and statistical analysis this book makes an important
contribution to authorship studies.
The full study of Bacon as a writer, Dr Vickers takes into account
the whole corpus of Bacon's work, in Latin as well as in English.
His chief sources are the The Advancement of Learning and the
Essays. His purpose is to reinstate Bacon as one of the supreme
masters of English prose in a period which made rich use of all the
expressive resources of the medium. The study is both analytical
and historical: it isolates the major features of Bacon's style,
and sets them in the context of Renaissance theory and practice.
The features include the overall structure of Bacon's works, his
important concept of the aphorism, and his use of the traditional
patterns of syntax. Dr Vickers makes a challenging reassessment of
the accepted view of Bacon as a 'Senecan' or 'anti-Ciceronian'
prose writer. Particular attention is paid to imagery, in which
Bacon's powers as an imaginative writer are greatest. There are two
general chapters, the first being the problem of analysing style,
the last on reactions to Bacon's style since the seventeenth
century. This book also provides the basis for a fresh assessment
of Renaissance prose.
This is a major student edition of the text described as 'the first
modern classic of English history'. Bacon's penetration into human
motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and
his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of
King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important
document in the history of political thought. The introduction
places Bacon's History in the context of Renaissance
historiography, revealing its debt to Tacitus, and shows Bacon's
originality in re-ordering traditional material to make a coherent
psychological analysis of the King's actions. In addition to the
usual series features and supporting contextual material (including
relevant Essays by Bacon), generous editorial footnotes explain the
historical and political issues of the reign of Henry VII, and a
substantial glossary clarifies Bacon's rich but sometimes
unfamiliar vocabulary.
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