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  • THE COMEDY OF MANNERS
    KENNETH MUIR
    Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and ...

    $920.00

  • KING LEAR
    KENNETH MUIR
    Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays. The structure displays the changing responses to the play and includes a wide range of criticism from the likes of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Moulton, Granville-Barker, Orwell, Levin, Stampfer, Gardner and Speaight interspersed ...

    $1,100.00

  • THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS
    KENNETH MUIR
    First published in 1977.This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, bu...

    $1,560.00

  • THE VOYAGE TO ILLYRIA
    KENNETH MUIR
    First published in 1937.This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper significance from its setting in the corpus. Muir and O'Loughlin's critical analysis takes place against the pers...

    $1,320.00

  • SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC SEQUENCE
    KENNETH MUIR
    First published in 1972.The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. The plays are almost always concerned with one person; they end with the death of the hero; the suffering and ca...

    $1,420.00

  • SHAKESPEARE'S SOURCES
    KENNETH MUIR
    First published in 1957.This book finds discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were, considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare's departure from them and provides many examples of the way in which he made use of his general reading for particular scenes and speeches. Kenneth Muir shows that Shakespeare frequently uses more than one source ...

    $1,320.00

  • SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
    KENNETH MUIR
    This edition first published in 1979.Discussing Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to sonnets by Italian, French and English poets, Kenneth Muir shows how they were influenced by Shakespeare's reading of Sidney, Erasmus and Ovid and discusses their art in terms of construction, sound patterns and imagery. He considers the relationship of the sonnets to Shakespeare's dramatic wri...

    $1,560.00

  • SHAKESPEARE AS COLLABORATOR
    KENNETH MUIR
    This edition first published in 1960. This book discusses the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and the lost Cardenio. It includes chapters on the dramatic value of the plays irrespective of authorship. ...

    $1,420.00