| Ref No | Shakespeare/1/4/479/264757 |
| Finding Number | Shakespeare S 479 264757 |
| Title | An essay on Shakespeare's relation to tradition / by Janet Spens. |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Tag 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. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Author | Spens, Janet, 1876- |
| Subject | Tag 600: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Philosophy. |
| Tag 650: Tragedy. |
| Physical Description | x, 102 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Publisher | Oxford : B. H. Blackwell, |