ABSTRACT
When we have been reading a Shakespeare play, or have seen one in the theatre, we may feel the need to attain a closer and more precise understanding of it. We sense that this can happen only through the study of individual aspects of the plays. Although it is by Shakespeare as a whole that we are affected, yet this whole can only be approached by the study of individual elements - by a scene, a passage, a certain manner of representation or a recurring element of the drama.
