An introduction to the study of Shakespeare.

Romeo and Juliet.--The commentary on Romeo and Juliet.--King John.--Much ado about nothing.--Hamlet.--The witch agency in Macbeth.--Lady Macbeth's relations to Macbeth.--Antony and Cleopatra.--Jottings on the text of Hamlet.--Miscellaneous notes.--Examination questions.Introduction.--The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.--The authenticity of the first folio.--The chronology of the plays.--Shakespeare's verse.--Distinctive use of verse and prose in Shakespeare's plays.--The Latin and the Anglo-Saxon elements of Shakespeare's English, and the monosyllabic vocabulary, in their relations to the intellectual, the emotional, and the dramatic.Mode of access: Internet