Pacific Coast Studies in Shakespeare

by McNeir, Waldo F.; Greenfield, Thelma Nelson

• ISBN13: 9780871140296
• ISBN10: 0871140292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

The twenty essays which comprise Pacific Coast Studies in Shakespeare are a broad sampling of the variety of critical opinions and techniques found among Shakespearean scholars from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Riverside, California. The essays, which approach their subject from interpretive, bibliographic, linguistic and comparative bases, touch upon nearly every phase of Shakespeare's work.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
The Use of Linguistic Criteria in Determining the Copy and Dates For Shakespeare's Plays	p. 1
Venus and Adonis and the Myth of Love	p. 20
Romeo and Juliet and the Art of Moral Navigation	p. 33
Romeo and Necessity	p. 47
Ceremony and History: The Problem Of Symbol from Richard II to Henry V	p. 68
Structure and Theme in the First Tavern Scene (IL.iv) of 1Henry IV	p. 89
Nonvocal Music: Added Dimension in Five Shakespeare Plays	p. 106
The Leaven of Wickedness: Hamlet, I.iv.1-38	p. 122
The Trials of Othello	p. 134
Love and Justice: Othello's Shakespearean Context	p. 148
The Modernity of Lear	p. 173
A Deed Without a Name	p. 190
Coriolanus: Interpretation	p. 199
Coriolanus as Aristotle's Magnanimous Man	p. 210
Shakespeare's Tragic Vision	p. 225
Musical Pauses and the Vision Scenes In Shakespeare's Last Plays	p. 234
Cymbeline: Religious Idea And Dramatic Design	p. 248
What Shakespeare Did with Pandosto: An Interpretation of The Winter's Tale	p. 263
Shakespeare and the Drama Of Melville's Fiction	p. 280
Reflections of a Shakespeare Bibliographer	p. 303
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