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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... story and the inference of an unhappy marriage have been vigorously disputed by some . The denials , however , seem somewhat forced ; and it is evident that they have sometimes been motivated by the wish to make a true - born gentleman ...
... story and the inference of an unhappy marriage have been vigorously disputed by some . The denials , however , seem somewhat forced ; and it is evident that they have sometimes been motivated by the wish to make a true - born gentleman ...
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... story might be , we might consider as a kind of limiting case what the results would have been if the same random collec- tion of adolescents had been asked to read , or even summarize after reading , a series of short stories . One ...
... story might be , we might consider as a kind of limiting case what the results would have been if the same random collec- tion of adolescents had been asked to read , or even summarize after reading , a series of short stories . One ...
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... story with the brief sketch of her character , one must admit that there is an evident contrast . But the crucial question is whether the heroine of the story , whom she has endowed with certain thoughts and traits , really does ...
... story with the brief sketch of her character , one must admit that there is an evident contrast . But the crucial question is whether the heroine of the story , whom she has endowed with certain thoughts and traits , really does ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
AWEW Alls Well That Ends Well | 42 |
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