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[12] He also delivered the 1909 Adamson Lecture [13] of the Victoria University of Manchester and the 1912 Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy. [14] Bradley's other works include "Aristotle's Conception of the State" in Hellenica , ed. Evelyn Abbott, London : Longmans, Green, 1st ed. 1880, 2nd ed., 1898, Poetry for Poetry's Sake (1901 ...
Wilson's 2013 book Free Will: Art and Power on Shakespeare's Stage is a comprehensive rereading of the plays in terms of Shakespeare's patronage relations. It maintains that the dramatist found artistic freedom by adopting an 'abject position' towards authority, and by staging 'the power of weakness' in the 'investiture crisis' of the age of ...
The structural problem in Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth. An inaugural lecture delivered at Westfield College, University of London, on 19 May 1955 [29] Catastrophe in Shakespearian Tragedy [30] Hamlet [31] Hamlet: Playgoer's Edition [32] Structural Problems in Shakespeare: Lectures and Essays by Harold Jenkins [33]
Smith published This Is Shakespeare in 2019. The book was published as a guide to Shakespeare's plays. It extends from her lectures for Oxford undergraduates, which were also used as the basis for her Approaching Shakespeare podcast, where she discusses 20 of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order. She says she wanted the book "to give a ...
He identified a Shakespeare-related essay contest as the origin of his obsession with the Bard. His wife, Emily, however, would later attribute Folger's initial fascination with Shakespeare to an 1879 lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson , whose eloquent delivery sounded Shakespearean to the college student.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
It is the oldest Shakespeare society in the world, having been in existence since 1824. [1] It now meets monthly between October and May at the Shakespeare Institute, for a series of lectures on a wide range of Shakespeare-related subjects.
The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text, 1923. Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy. [9] Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More (with W. W. Greg, Edward Maunde Thompson, John Dover Wilson and R. W. Chambers), 1923. Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries ...