Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded - With a Preface By Nathaniel Hawthorne

This controversial 1857 book argues that the plays of 'Shakspere' were actually written by a coterie of highly educated aristocrats.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction: 1. The proposition; 2. The age of Elizabeth; 3. Extracts from the life of Raleigh; 4. Raleigh's school; Part I. The Elizabethan Art of Delivery and Tradition: 1. Michael de Montaigne's 'private and retired arts'; 2. The Baconian rhetoric, or the method of progression; Part II. Elizabethan 'Secrets of Mortality and Policy': Introductory; 1. Lear's philosopher; 2. Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.

Product details

• Authors: Delia Bacon, Bacon Delia, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Assisted by: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9781108083324
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08332-4
• No. of pages: 698
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean