Shakespeare-Characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: March 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781402149986
Subjects: Shakespeare,William,1564-1616,Characters,Charles Cow Clarke; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: WHEN I first proposed to myself the undertaking of a Course of Lectures upon the Genius of Shakespeare, my first feeling was, that I could scarcely hope to originate any new theory upon the principal characters in his dramas; for they have been subjected to and have passed the ordeal of the most acute critical intellects of the most civilised nations of the world during more than a century past; and therefore for a while I suspended my intention.