ABSTRACT

First published in 1937.

This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper significance from its setting in the corpus. Muir and O'Loughlin's critical analysis takes place against the personality of Shakespeare, asserting that that despite all their diversities a single mind and a single hand dominate them and that they are the outcome of one man's critical and emotional reactions to life.

chapter |8 pages

The Approach

chapter |21 pages

The Key

chapter |49 pages

Tutelage

Part I

chapter |33 pages

Tutelage

part II

chapter |26 pages

Journey to the Phoenix

chapter |40 pages

Betrayal

chapter |26 pages

Inferno

chapter |30 pages

After the Storm