Title: William Shakespeare: a critical study.
Authors: Brandes, Georg, 1842-1927.
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
Year: 1963
Subjects: Shakespeare, William,
Abstract: "The author shows the great dramatist as a man of his own time as well as for the ages, and he clarifies the implicit relationship between Shakespeare's personal affairs and the plays and poems."--From book jacket.
Contents: Vol. 1. Bk. 1. A biography of Shakespeare difficult but not impossible -- Stratford -- Marriage -- London -- Political and religious conditions -- Shakespeare as actor and retoucher of old plays -- The "Henry VI" trilogy -- Christopher Marlowe and his life-work -- Shakespeare's conception of the relations of the sexes -- Love's labour's won : the first sketch of All's well that ends well -- Venus and Adonis : descriptions of nature -- A midsummer night's dream -- Romeo and Juliet -- Latter-day attacks upon Shakespeare -- The theatres -- The theatres closed on account of the plague -- Shakespeare turns to historic drama -- Richard III -- Shakespeare loses his son -- The "Taming of the shrew" and "The merchant of Venice" -- The merchant of Venice -- "Edward III" and "Arden of Feversham" -- Henry Percy -- Prince Henry -- "King Henry IV," second part -- Elizabeth and Falstaff -- Shakespeare's most brilliant period -- The interval of serenity -- Consummate spiritual harmony -- The revolution in Shakespeare's soul.