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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... write an eloquent appeal against the censoring of books ; and censorship of novel and drama , in the interests of ... writer appears as diseased in mind or prone to be . Writers them- selves have concurred in this view . Dryden ...
... write an eloquent appeal against the censoring of books ; and censorship of novel and drama , in the interests of ... writer appears as diseased in mind or prone to be . Writers them- selves have concurred in this view . Dryden ...
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... write any play at all , and not at all predictable that he would write Hamlet ( since that is unique in world literature and unique in the history of Shakespeare ) , and only vaguely predictable that as a grown man he would have ...
... write any play at all , and not at all predictable that he would write Hamlet ( since that is unique in world literature and unique in the history of Shakespeare ) , and only vaguely predictable that as a grown man he would have ...
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... writing up Shakespeare , the emphasis tends to fall on explanation ; a given trait or symptom is isolated which has ... writing Love's Labour's Lost might be behaviorally the picture of gloom , and the writer of King Lear the most ...
... writing up Shakespeare , the emphasis tends to fall on explanation ; a given trait or symptom is isolated which has ... writing Love's Labour's Lost might be behaviorally the picture of gloom , and the writer of King Lear the most ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
AWEW Alls Well That Ends Well | 42 |
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