A Notebook on William Shakespeare

by Edith Sitwell

Book Overview

This book may be described as Dame Edith Sitwell's personal notebook. It consists of essays on the subject of the general aspect of the plays-those great hymns to the principle and the glory of life, in which there are the same differences in nature, in matter, in light, in darkness, in movement, that we find in the universe, and in which the characters are so vast they seem each an element (Water, Hamlet; Air, Romeo and Juliet; Fire, King Lear) and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448200709
• ISBN13: 9781448200702
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"