Shakespeare Characters Chiefly Those Subordinate
Publisher: Ams Pr Inc
Published: January 1963
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9780404015671
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.