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Shakespeare
Macbeth
Resources
  • A Poet's Notebook - p.30-54
  • The Mysterious William Shakespeare - How he reflects the life of his creator and how he resembles Hamlet p.361-373
  • Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns - See index
  • Wheel of Fire - Brutus and Macbeth p.53-136
  • Shakespeare As a Dramatic Artist - p.126-167
  • Shakespeare's World of Images -Moral ideal p.209-220
  • Ghosts in Shakespeare - p.21-56
  • Immortal Shadows - p.96-118
  • Character and Motive in Shakespeare - p.79-110
  • Understanding Shakespeare - p.221-255
  • William Shakespeare: A Readers Guide - p.371-399
  • Poetry and Fiction: Essays - p.349-354
  • The Heroic Image in Five Shakespearean Tragedies - see index
  • All of Shakespeare - see index
  • Approaching Shakespeare - Macbeth and Artistic Integrities p.102-107
  • Shakespeare and the Craft of Tragedy - p.52-103
  • The Story of the Night - p.57-74
  • Fools of Time - My Father as He Slept: The Tragedy of Order p.3-39
  • An Approach to Shakespeare - p.423-428
  • Principles of Tragedy - Some Classic Tragedies: Oedipus, Hamlet, Macbeth, Phedre p.96-100
  • A Psychoanalytic Study of the Doubles in Literature - see index
  • Shakespeare's Dramatic Style - p.160-190
  • Shakespeare, Santayana, and the Comic - see index
  • Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality - Moral Universe of the Action p.23-24
  • Shakespeare Survey #26 - Macbeth of Horseback, discrepancy in manuscripts of production p.81-88
  • More Prefaces to Shakespeare - p.60-93 and 135-167
  • Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist - p.260-283
  • Freedom of the Poet - Notes on Macbeth p.56-71
  • Appropriating Shakespeare (see index)
  • Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity (see index)
  • All of Shakespeare (see index)
  • Shakespeare's Christian Dimension - p.473-493
  • The Sense of Shakespeare's Sonnets (see index)
  • Lectures on Shakespeare - p.208
  • Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes - p.208-240
  • Shakespeare Survey #16 - The Actor and Image in Shakespeare p.42-53
  • Readings on The Tragedies of Shakespeare - p.151-162 and p. 170-176
  • Shakespeare Survey #19
  • Killing the King - The Voice in the Sword p.138-203
  • Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies - ch.1, 5 and 6
  • Art and Artifice in Shakespeare - p.77-89
  • Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective - p.178-200
  • The Living Monument - ch.7
Othello
Resources
  • Shakespeare and His Predecessors - p.423-437
  • Wheel of Fire - Othello Music p.107-131
  • Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist - p.225-245
  • Art and Artifice in Shakespeare - p.6-55
  • Immortal Shadows - p.230-245
  • Character and Motive in Shakespeare - p.99-110
  • Prefaces to Shakespeare v.2 - p.1-149
  • Shakespeare's World of Images - p.174-185,386
  • Literary Essays - p.24-30
  • Tragedy - see index
  • Shakespearean Tragedy and the Elizabethan Compromise - see analytical table of contents
  • The Tragic Sense in Shakespeare
  • Creating a Role - p.103-210
  • Flaming Minister
  • Patterns in Shakespearean Tragedy - Pattern of Moral Choice p.91-115
  • Nature in Shakespearean Tragedy - p.69-88
  • The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays - p.246-272
  • William Shakespeare: A Reader's Guide - p.340-370
  • Shakespeare Criticism 1935-1960 - Gardner,The Noble Moor p.348-370
  • The Shakespearean Imagination - p.197-215
  • A Poet's Notebook - p.94-116
  • Ten More Plays of Shakespeare - p.165-196
  • The Story of the Night - p.37-56
  • Fools of Time - Little World of Man: The Tragedy of Isolation p.77-121
  • An Approach to Shakespeare - p.400-422
  • A Psychoanalytic Study of the Doubles in Literature - Play analyzed p.78-84, see index for further reference
  • Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies - Ch.1,3,6 and appendix
  • Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist - p.260-283
  • Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies - Controversy on moral sense of final speech of Othello p.168-172
  • Shakespeare and the Revolution of the Times - Motives involved p.146-161
  • Shakespeare's Enactment - p.48-68
  • By Me, William Shakespeare - See index of plays and characters
  • Shakespeare Survey vol. 35 - Spanish Othello, The Making of Shakespeare's Moor p.101-112
  • Family Relationships in Shakespeare and the Restoration Comedy of Manners - See index
  • Interpretations of Shakespeare: British Academy Shakespeare Lectures - Selected by Kenneth Muir - See Index
  • Shakespeare: An Introduction - p.142-145
  • The Cult of Shakespeare - See index
  • The Heroic Image in Five Shakespearean Tragedies - see index
  • Shakespeare as a Political Thinker - see index
  • Black Face, Maligned Race - The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne - p.150-162
  • Gorgon's Head: A Study in Tragedy and Despair - p.23-24
  • Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos - ch.6, p.126
  • Shakespearean Sentences - see contents
  • All of Shakespeare - p.251-264
  • Appropriating Shakespeare - see index
  • William Shakepeare: The Problem Plays - see index
  • Shakespeare and the uses of Antiquity - see index
  • The Sense of Shakespeare's Sonnets - see index
  • Kill All the Lawyers? - Defamation in, p.156-165 and see index
  • Shakespeare's Christian Dimension - p.415-429
  • Men in Black - p.101-113
  • Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis - p.124
  • Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on... - p.175-242
  • Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes - Tragedy of Jealousy, p.148-174
  • Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters - v.2, p.453-489
  • Shakespeare and the Nature of Man - p122-135
  • The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery - p.119-132
  • Shakespeare 400 - p.265-275, Perplex'd in the Extreme: The Role of Thought in Othello
  • Othello: An Outlline Guide to the Play
  • Shakespeare Survey Vol. 21
  • Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective - See index
  • The Living Monument - ch. 9
  • Shakespeare Survey v. 34 - See index
  • Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor - See index
  • Angel with Horns - Othello: A Moral Essay, p.189-208
  • Shakespearean Criticism - vol. 4
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