An essay on Shakespeare's relation to tradition
By: by Janet Spens.
Publisher: B. H. Blackwell
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Philosophy; Tragedy
Other titles: Shakespeare's relation to tradition.
Table of contents: title: The effect of tradition in poetry.; title: Comedy: Types of comedy before Shakespeare.  Evidence of the influence of Munday on Shakespeare leading up to Shakespeare's use of the folk-play.  The traces of folk-plays in Shakespeare's drama.; title: Tragedy and conclusion: The Greek tragic hero.  The pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean tragic hero to the earliest Hamlet.  Honour the subject of Elizabethan tragedy.  Shakespeare's rejection of the superman.  Post-Shakespearean tragedy still occupied with the same conception in a narrower form.  The later Hamlet and King Lear.  Conclusion: The individual is esentially tragic; consolation is only possible when we regard all life as one.