1951
The Imperial Theme
Prefatory Note
Shakespeare’s Tragic Villain
originally published as ‘Macbeth as Tragic Hero’ in Journal of General Education VI, October 1951. Revised for its inclusion in Lerner (ed.) Shakespeare’s Tragedies.
Life in Shakespeare’s England
Preface J. Dover Wilson England and the English (Richard II, Henry V etc.) England, the English, birth and rank, snobbery, English women Part One: Shakespeare’s Youth, Stratford, 1564-86 Born 1564: son of a farmer and shopkeeper of Stratford-upon-Avon: probably attends the free grammar school of the town The Countryside Midsummer Night’s Dream, induction to The …
Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Wonder ‘Unwillingly to School’ ‘I Came to Wive’ The Hidden Years ‘In the Quick Forge’ ‘And Working House’ ‘The Morning’s War’ Seven Ages of the Man ‘My Lovely Boy’ ‘Woman Colour’d Ill’ ‘Lass Unparallel’d’ In the Motley As They Liked It The Man of Property The Hand of Glory Matters of Opinion Appendices …