A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare: Being the Text of the First (1794) Edition Revised by the Author and Never Previously Published

ISBN-13: 9780367696108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 314 str.

Walter Whiter

Opis

In an age in which the study of Shakespeare’s characters was of prime interest and importance, Whiter developed a form of textual criticism closely linked to a study of the workings of the human mind: and his book, published in 1794 offers a psychological survey of the creative imagination. This revised edition was first published in 1967.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.  Editor’s Preface.  Abbreviations.  Introduction: Whiter and His Background;  Contemporary Criticism of Whiter’s Work;  The Specimen and Later Shakespeare Criticism;  The Present Edition and the Whiter MSS.  A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare  1. Notes on As You Like It  2. An Attempt to Explain and Illustrate Various Passages of Shakespeare on a New Principle of Criticism, Derived from Mr Locke’s Doctrine of the Association of Ideas, 1794.  Appendices:  (a) Short Essays on Miscellaneous Topics  (b) Other Examples of Whiter’s Notes on Shakespeare’s Association of Ideas.  Selected Bibliography.  Index.