The Personality of Shakespeare: A Venture in Psychological MethodFirst of all, as the title indicates, I am concerned with exploring a method. This method derives from the theory of personality projection. It is quantitative in part, but its operation depends, as everything in science does, upon a human observer and assessor. With regard to the personality of Shakespeare, I should like to make it plain that I have not attempted to be comprehensive and final. I do not see how we can be comprehensive and final with regard to any personality. Here, in studying Shakespeare, I have been deliberately fragmentary, limiting myself to a mere handful of questions. In particular, I have not tried to analyze the plays as artistic wholes in their entire complexity, but have only traced out a few general characteristics and a few patterns, which I have called "themes," occurring in more than one play. My analysis has focused on the dramatis personae and their interrelations. - Preface. |
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... Polonius and Touchstone and Lear and Rosa- lind , Dame Quickly as well as Cleopatra and Cassius , Pistol and Osric as well as Ulysses and Prospero and Caliban . All are authen- tic , all are genuine , all are sincere - I use the regular ...
... Polonius and Touchstone and Lear and Rosa- lind , Dame Quickly as well as Cleopatra and Cassius , Pistol and Osric as well as Ulysses and Prospero and Caliban . All are authen- tic , all are genuine , all are sincere - I use the regular ...
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... Polonius Ford Pandarus 82 20 53 49 Clown Horatio Evans Cressida 77 15 49 Malvolio Laertes Mrs. Quickly 47 Thersites 67 12 43 Orsino Ophelia Mrs. Ford 37 Hector 42 11 37 35 Sir Andrew Q. Gertrude Page Agamemnon 40 9 32 35 Sebastian ...
... Polonius Ford Pandarus 82 20 53 49 Clown Horatio Evans Cressida 77 15 49 Malvolio Laertes Mrs. Quickly 47 Thersites 67 12 43 Orsino Ophelia Mrs. Ford 37 Hector 42 11 37 35 Sir Andrew Q. Gertrude Page Agamemnon 40 9 32 35 Sebastian ...
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... Polonius and Laertes . The old father , like many a father before , wishes his son well and arranges for him to travel abroad . One of the most famous of all the speeches written by Shakespeare is that in which Polonius gives Laertes ...
... Polonius and Laertes . The old father , like many a father before , wishes his son well and arranges for him to travel abroad . One of the most famous of all the speeches written by Shakespeare is that in which Polonius gives Laertes ...
Contents
HIV King Henry IV Part | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
Quantitative Aspects of Shakespeares Plays | 47 |
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