Eastman, Arthur M

New York. 1968. Random House. Reprinted Paperback Edition . Very Good in Wrappers. 418 pages. paperback. Cover design by Ronald Clyne. keywords: Drama Shakespeare Paperback Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - FROM THE INTRODUCTION - In military history, said A. W. Schlegel, we do not give the name of every soldier who fought in the files of the hostile armies: ‘we speak only of generals, and those who performed actions of distinction.' The same truth applies to the history of Shakespearean criticism. We do not, perhaps cannot, give the names of an who have fought in the critical battles, denying or asserting Shakespeare's authorship, condemning or celebrating his art, quarreling over the definition of his characters and vision. The ‘Annotated World Bibliography for 1965' of the Shakespeare Quarterly lists no less than 1356 items, ranging from ‘Shakespeares Kaufmann von Venedig in unserer Zeit,' to Impact of Shakespeare on Urdu Literature,' to an article in Japanese on ‘Ritual Elements in Shakespeare's History Plays,' to the query ‘T•€Vas the Bard an Obstetrician?' Exclusive of films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and recordings, there were 3193 items in the ‘Bibliography' for 1964, the quartercentenary of Shakespeare's birth, 1123 items for 1963, 1159 for 1962. ‘The bibliography of dissertations and studies devoted to Hamlet,' says Kott, is already ‘twice the size of Warsaw's telephone directory.' The sun does not set on Shakespeare; the criticism mounts. In sketching the history of the criticism, therefore, we deal of necessity only with the principal figures - Jonson and Johnson, Dryden and Morgann, Goethe, A. W. Schlegel, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Pater, Bradley, G. Wilson Knight, and a few others. inventory #46190