Shakespeare's Dramatic Meditations: An Experiment in Criticism by Melchiori, Giorgio

Oxford, England: Clarendon Press - Oxford University Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (vii) 206 pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with charts and diagrams. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with two short tears in the lower edge of the rear panel and a shor tear with associated creasing in the lower edge of the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. This book offers a strikingly successful experiment in critical methodology, employing textual, philological, and sociological approaches and, more extensively, different structural and linguistic analyses. The Contents are: Preface; The Use of Statistics; Lilies That Fester: The Strategy of Sonnet 94 and the Ethics of Power; 'Tis Better to be Vile: Sonnet 121 and the Ethics of Social Behaviour; Interchapter: Love's Use and Man's Hues in Sonnet 20; Th'expense of Spirit: Sonnet 129 and the Ethics of Sex; Poor Soul: Sonnet 146 and the Ethics of Religion; and… Read More

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 206 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Sonnets; Poetry in English Shakespeare, William Sonnets Critical studies; Poetry in English Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Sonnets.

Oxford Univ Pr, 1976-06. Hardcover. Good.

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. first edition in blue cloth in vg condition. First. Cloth. Very Good.