Reading Shakespeare's mind /
Steve Sohmer.
- 1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations, map
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Preface : impersonal Shakespeare -- Part I. Shakespeare, lovers, and friends. Joining the mice-eyed decipherers -- Marlowe's ghost in As You Like It -- The dark lady of The Merchant of Venice -- Part II. Queen Elizabeth's Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night on Twelfth Night -- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night wordplay -- Shakespeare and Paul in Illyria -- Nashe and Harvey in Illyria -- M.O.A.I. deciphered at last -- Beginning at the beginning -- Tributes private and public -- Epilogue : personal Shakespeare.
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An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.
9781526113276
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Psychology. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Friends and associates. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Friends and associates. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Psychology. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Psychology. Friendship. Personality in literature. DRAMA--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY--Historiography. LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM--Shakespeare. Shakespeare Studies & Criticism. Literature & Literary Studies. Personnalite dans la litterature. Personality in literature.