Shakespeare's imagery
Subtitle: and what it tells us
By: by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon with charts and illustrations
Series: Beacon Paperbacks -- 53
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Literary style; Figures of speech
Notes: Reprint of the 1935 ed. published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Eng.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The revelation of the man. The aim and method explained; title: Shakespeare's imagery compared with that of Marlowe and Bacon; title: Imagery of Shakespeare and other dramatists compared; title: The subject-matter of Shakespeare's images; title: Shakespeare's senses; title: Shakespeare's tastes and interests : outdoor life; title: Shakespeare's tastes and interests : indoor and other interests; title: Evidence in the images of Shakespeare's thought; title: Association of ideas; title: Shakespeare the man; title: pt. 2. The function of the imagery as background and undertone in Shakespeare's art. Leading motives in the histories; title: Leading motives in the comedies; title: Leading motives in the romances; title: Leading motives in the tragedies.