Title: Shakespeare's patterns of self-knowledge.
Authors: Soellner, Rolf.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Year: 1972
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Criticism and interpretation.; Self-knowledge in literature.
Contents: 1. Humanism and Antihumanism -- 1. Nosce Teipsum: Learning the Method -- 2. Nosce Teipsum: Charting New Courses -- 2. Theory and Adaptation -- 3. Microcosm and macrocosm: Framing the Picture of Man -- 4. The Comedy of Errors: losing and Finding Oneself -- 5. Love's Labor's Lost: Seeking Oneself -- 6. Richard II: Looking into the Mirror of Grief -- 7. Henry V: Patterning after Perfection -- 3. Problems and Ambiguities -- 8. The Real versus the Ideal: Taking a Skeptic View -- 9. Julius Caesar: Taking an Uncertain Road -- 10. Hamlet: Probing a Restless Self -- 11. Troilus and Cressida: Fragmenting a Divided Self -- 12. Measure for Measure: Looking into Oneself -- 4. Achievement and Synthesis -- 13. Will and Passion: Heightening the Self -- 14. Othello: Subjecting the Self -- 15. King Lear: Valuing the Self -- 16. King Lear: Stripping the Self -- 17. Macbeth: Losing the Self -- 18. The Tempest: The Mastered Self.