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Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these 'literary' texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays. This revised and updated edition includes a new and substantial preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy the study has triggered and lists reviews, articles and books which respond to or build on the first edition.
Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.
The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them.
Selections from 39 critics.
Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism is the first book-length study of Jonson's literary criticism, and examines the ways that criticism defines his unprecedented role as a professional author. Each chapter explores a different facet: 'The Lone Wolf' looks at Jonson's role in creating a critical discourse to respond to a new literary market-place; 'Poet and Critic' explores the relationship between his 'creative' and 'critical' writing; 'Poet and State' traces his accommodations as an author with censorship and other forms of authority; 'The Laws of Poetry' relates his appeals to classical precedent to his insecurity in a world where literary conditions were very different from those of ancient Greece and Rome; 'Jonson and Shakespeare' examines the old supposed rivalry as evidence of competing definitions of authorship. Throughout Richard Dutton suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Finally an appendix provides a representative selection of Jonson's critical work.
Originally published between 1934 and 1952 these volumes are classics in the field of literary criticism. Their author was a respected scholar whose ability to survey a vast field of literature and criticism and explain and un-tangle it to students was well-known. The volumes: Analyze styles of literary criticism prevalent in ancient Greece and after the rise of the Roman Empire Illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism Review the critical achievement at the Renaissance Discuss the theories and judgments of various critics and their bearing on literary appreciation between the Renaissance and the dawn of 19th Century Romanticism.
Although Ostensibly Only A Primer Meant For Beginners, The Book Offers An Excellent Practical Guideline For The Students In Understanding And Appreciating The Real Merit Of A Work. In Criticism, Forming The Correct Impression About A Work Is Not Enough; One Has To Justify That Impression On The Basis Of The Textual Evidence. It Is Here That The Book Comes To A Student'S Succour. With Innumerable Diverse Passages And Fine Analysis Professor Hollingworth Offers Sincere Help By Demonstrating What To Look For, How To Look For And Where To Look For, In A Passage For Support And Authentication Of One'S Impression.A Specimen Of Richardsian Practical Criticism The Book Is Sure To Be Immensely Useful To The Students Of Literature Interested In Literary Criticism.