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Ref NoShakespeare/1/4/479/264757
Finding NumberShakespeare S 479 264757
TitleAn essay on Shakespeare's relation to tradition / by Janet Spens.
LevelItem
Date1916
DescriptionTag 505: The effect of tradition in poetry.--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.--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.
Extent1
AuthorSpens, Janet, 1876-
SubjectTag 600: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Philosophy.
Tag 650: Tragedy.
Physical Descriptionx, 102 p. ; 20 cm.
Access StatusOpen
PublisherOxford : B. H. Blackwell,
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