That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a critical process

by Terence Hawkes

Overview

First published in 1986.

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which our society 'processes' Shakespeare and the purposes for which this seems to be done. The case is made by examining the work of four highly influential critics: A C Bradley, Walter Raleigh, T S Eliot and John Dover Wilson.

Terence Hawkes asks whether, beyond the readings to which the plays may be subjected, there lies any final, authoritative or essential meaning to which we can ultimately turn, concluding that jazz music offers the most fruitful model for twentieth-century criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415352925
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2004
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Playhouse–Workhouse; Chapter 2 A Sea Shell; Chapter 3 Swisser Swatier: Making a Man of English Letters; Chapter 4 That Shakespeherian Rag; Chapter 5 Telmah; Chapter 6 Conclusion: 1917 and All That;