The Project Gutenberg E-text of An Introduction to Shakespeare, by H. N. MacCracken, F. E. Pierce, W. H. Durham
by H. N. MacCracken
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pierce, F. E. (Frederick Erastus), 1878-1935
- Title
- An Introduction to Shakespeare
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30982
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30982
- Release Date
- January 16, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST FOLIO, 1628 The first collected edition of Shakespeare's Plays (From the copy in the New York Public Library) — AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE — BY — H. N. MacCRACKEN, PH.D. F. E. PIERCE, PH.D. — AND — W. H. DURHAM, PH.D. — New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1925 — PREFACE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE — CHAPTER I — AN OUTLINE OF SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE — CHAPTER II — ENGLISH DRAMA BEFORE SHAKESPEARE — CHAPTER III — THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER — TIMON OF ATHENS, v, 4. OUTER SCENE. — TIMON OF ATHENS, v, 3. INNER SCENE. — CHAPTER IV — ELIZABETHAN LONDON — CHAPTER V — SHAKESPEARE'S NONDRAMATIC WORKS — CHAPTER VI — THE SEQUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE's PLAYS — CHAPTER VII — SHAKESPEARE'S DEVELOPMENT AS A DRAMATIST — CHAPTER VIII — THE CHIEF SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS — CHAPTER IX — HOW SHAKESPEARE GOT INTO PRINT — CHAPTER X — THE PLAYS OF THE FIRST PERIOD—IMITATION AND EXPERIMENT — 1587 (?)-1594 — CHAPTER XI — THE PLAYS OF THE SECOND PERIOD—COMEDY AND HISTORY — CHAPTER XII — THE PLAYS OF THE THIRD PERIOD—TRAGEDY — CHAPTER XIII — THE PLAYS OF THE FOURTH PERIOD—ROMANTIC TRAGI-COMEDY — CHAPTER XIV — FAMOUS MISTAKES AND DELUSIONS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE — INDEX
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