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The Shakespeare symphony : an introduction to the ethics of the Elizabethan drama.

Bayley, Harold, author.; Thornton, Richard H. (Richard Hopwood), 1845-1925, former owner.
1906
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Title
The Shakespeare symphony : an introduction to the ethics of the Elizabethan drama.
Created/published
London : Chapman & Hall, 1906.
Description
ix, 393 p. ; 23 cm
Associated name
Bayley, Harold, author.
Thornton, Richard H. (Richard Hopwood), 1845-1925, former owner.
Note
"I do not maintain that Bacon was the concealed author of all the plays from which I have quoted extracts; but for many of them he will, I believe, ultimately be found to have been responsible; and for others his disciples could probably have rendered some account."--p. 355.
Contents
London's Parnassus
The sweetness and gravity of the dramatic mind
The state of learning
Ecclesiasticism
Religion
Educational purpose
Medicine and physiology
Elizabethan audiences
Classicisms
The wordmakers
Problematic manuscripts
Miscellaneous similitudes
Error, wit, and metaphor
Traits and idiosyncrasies
Conclusion
Appendices.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR2944 .B48
Folger-specific note
Portraits of Shakespeare glued to fly-leaves.

Manuscript notes of Richard H. Thornton.

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