Blood Will Tell in Shakespeare's Plays

by David Shelley Berkeley

In Blood Will Tell in Shakespeare's Plays, Dr. Berkeley studies various manifestations of Shakespeare's class bias seen in the poet's division of all human beings in the plays into two genetic classes, gentle and base. Berkeley examines both Renaissance physiology and the Shakespearean applications of it, helping to make this conception seem more credible than superstitious or quixotic. In this light, Shakespeare is seen not as a eugenics propagandist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896721183
• ISBN13: 9780896721180
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 107 Pages