Reading Shakespeare's mind /

Sohmer, Steve

Reading Shakespeare's mind / Steve Sohmer. - 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations, map - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

Preface : impersonal Shakespeare -- Part I. Shakespeare, lovers, and friends. Joining the mice-eyed decipherers -- Marlowe's ghost in As You Like It -- The dark lady of The Merchant of Venice -- Part II. Queen Elizabeth's Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night on Twelfth Night -- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night wordplay -- Shakespeare and Paul in Illyria -- Nashe and Harvey in Illyria -- M.O.A.I. deciphered at last -- Beginning at the beginning -- Tributes private and public -- Epilogue : personal Shakespeare.

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An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Psychology.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Friends and associates.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Friends and associates.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Psychology.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.


Personality in literature.
Literature & Literary Studies.
Shakespeare Studies & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY--Historiography.
DRAMA--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Personality in literature.
Friendship.
Psychology.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PR2909 / .S64 2017

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