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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... theme , but I want to dwell most carefully on Much Ado About Nothing , Othello , Cymbeline , and Winter's Tale , because these four plays exhibit the theme most cen- trally and have many points in common . They will be examined in ...
... theme , but I want to dwell most carefully on Much Ado About Nothing , Othello , Cymbeline , and Winter's Tale , because these four plays exhibit the theme most cen- trally and have many points in common . They will be examined in ...
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... theme is prominent . The frequency and importance of this theme in Shakespeare are all the more striking from the compara- tive absence of the mother - daughter relationship . Halliday has noted this fact with something like surprise ...
... theme is prominent . The frequency and importance of this theme in Shakespeare are all the more striking from the compara- tive absence of the mother - daughter relationship . Halliday has noted this fact with something like surprise ...
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... theme also seems to be present . In reflecting on this infidelity theme it is hard to resist the conclusion that Shakespeare's marriage was a troubled one . It began unpropitiously ; it apparently was virtually broken up three years ...
... theme also seems to be present . In reflecting on this infidelity theme it is hard to resist the conclusion that Shakespeare's marriage was a troubled one . It began unpropitiously ; it apparently was virtually broken up three years ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
AWEW Alls Well That Ends Well | 42 |
Copyright | |
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