Shakespearean Meanings
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Shakespearean Meanings

  1. 330 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespearean Meanings

About this book

Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable.... Shakespeare not only abides our questions, he tells us what questions to ask; he took infinite pains to be precisely understood."

Originally published in 1968.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. I. How Not to Murder Caesar
  6. II. The Poet as Fool and Priest: A Discourse on Method
  7. III. "I Am but Shadow of Myself": Ceremony and Design in I Henry VI
  8. IV. Shakespeare, Peele, and the King of Scots
  9. V. King John: The Ordering of This Present Time
  10. VI. "Swoll'n with Some Other Grief": Shakespeare's Prince Hal Trilogy
  11. VII. The Merchant of Venice: The Gentle Bond
  12. VIII. King Lear: The Quality of Nothing
  13. IX. The King's Language: Shakespeare's Drama as Social Discovery
  14. Appendix. Notes on the Theory of Intrinsic Interpretation
  15. Index

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