Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille

List of contents

Part 1: Ludovico Ariosto 1. A Critical Problem 2. The Life of the Affections in Ariosto, and the Heart of His Heart 3. The Highest Love: Harmony 4. The Material for the Harmony 5. The Realisation of Harmony 6. Historical Disassociations Part 2: William Shakespeare 7. The Practical Personality 8. Shakespearean Sentiment 9. Motives and Development of Shakespeare’s Poetry 10. The Art of Shakespeare 11. Shakespearean Criticism 12. Shakespeare and Ourselves Part 3: Pierre Corneille 13. Criticism of the Criticism 14. The Ideal of Corneille 15. The Mechanism of the Cornelian Tragedy 16. The Poetry of Corneille

About the author

Benedetto Croce

Summary

Originally published in 1921 this volume consists of the first of Croce’s literary criticisms to be published in English and as well as a section on Shakespeare, it contains unique essays on Ariosto and Corneille which together inaugurated a new era in literary criticism. The essays are based on Croce’s Theory of Aesthetic - a theory which to many is the only one that completely explains the problem of poetry and the fine arts - and as a result are profound and suggestive.

Product details

• Authors: Benedetto Croce
• Assisted by: Douglas Ainslie (Translation), Ainslie Douglas (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780367144371
• ISBN: 978-0-367-14437-1
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: The Collected Works; Collected Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, Business & Economics / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800