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PREFACE FOR some years, as a result of a lifetime rather largely devoted to Shakespeare study, the author has been engaged on a work on 14 The Canon of Shakespeare,'~ designed to deal with aU the problems coming under that title. In I905 he preluded the undertaking with a volume entitled " Did Shakespeare write TITUS ANDRONICUS?" which, rewritten and greatly expanded, he hopes shortly to reissue as a practical introduction to the study of the entire IC Canon." The whole ground, it is hoped, need not be covered on the same scale; and a number of the more problematic plays have been dealt with in sections of moderate length. The complete work, however-if the author should live to complete it-will inevitably be a bulky one; and he hopes, before putting it in a final form, to have the benefit of expert criticism of at least a number of the sections. I t is proposed, accordingly, to issue some of them separately. This course has already been begun by the publication o
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PAGE; PREFACE 7; I THE }ESTHETIC PROBLEM II; § I Subjective Theories II; § 2 Objective Theories T9; § 3 Theory of Defect in the Dramatist 23; § 4 The Growth of the Play 30; II THE DOCUMENTARY PROBLEM 33; § 1 The Pre-Shakespearean Play; § 2 The Old German Version; III K~D'S PROBABLE CO~STRUCTION; ' • 33; 49; § I Superfluous Survivals 49; § 2 Vas Kyd's II Hamlet" a Double Play? 52; § 3 Irrelevant Scenes 57; IV SHAKESPEARE'S WORK OF TRANSMUTATION; § 1 Old Action: New Psychosis; § 2 The Infusion of Pessimism; § 3 The Upshot; INDEX •; 9
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