Returning to Shakespeare (eBook)

Acknowledgements. Returning to Shakespeare: An Autobiographical Preface. Part 1: Forms and Meanings 1. Rites of Passage in Shakespeare's Prose 2. 'Mutual Render': I and Thou in the Sonnets 3. Shakespeare's Hypocrites 4. Coriolanus and the Demons of Politics Part 2: Shakespeare and His Critics 5. The Emergence of Character Criticism, 1774-1800 6. Shakespearean Adaptations: The Tyranny of the Audience 7. Shakespeare. 'A National Asset' 8. Tribute to a Scholar-Critic. Index.