Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature enthusiasts interested in the structure of Shakespeare's plays
- University students studying the history and reception of Shakespeare criticism
- Theatre practitioners who wish to reread Shakespeare from a stage perspective
- Advanced readers who enjoy reading public-domain English classics
Not a good fit for
- Writers of academic papers requiring modern scholarly standards and citation systems
- Beginners who struggle with English and want only plot summaries
- Readers expecting scene-by-scene, line-by-line textual annotation
Reading tips
- Choose a Shakespeare play you already know, then read the corresponding discussion in this book, checking the plot arrangement as you go.
- Keep pen and paper handy to note how the author divides dramatic structure, for easy comparison with other Shakespeare criticism.
- Read the introductory chapters first to grasp the overall approach, then skip to analyses of plays that interest you.
- Do not get bogged down in period vocabulary; focus on the author's judgments about dramatic effect.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Richard G. Moulton (1849–1924) was a British literary scholar known for his studies of Shakespeare and of the Bible as literature, and he later taught at the University of Chicago. His representative work, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, examines the structure and characterization of Shakespeare's plays from the standpoint of dramatic craft, emphasizing their overall effect as stage art rather than piecemeal textual scholarship. Moulton's research spanned secular drama and religious scripture, seeking to connect the two through the methods of literary criticism, and he exercised a certain influence on English literary studies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information on his early education, academic lineage and detailed biography is limited, and only one of his works is currently held in the collection.
