Meaning by Shakespeare

by Terence Hawkes

Book Overview

We traditionally assume that the meaning' of each of Shakespeares plays is bequeathed to it by the Bard. It is as if, to the information which used to be given in theatrical programmes, Cigarettes by Abdullah, Costumes by Motley, Music by Mendelssohn', we should add Meaning by Shakespeare'.
These essays rest on a different, almost opposite, principle. Developing the arguments of the same author's That Shakespearean Rag (1986), they put the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415074517
• ISBN13: 9780415074513
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"