Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art
work by Dowden
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- In Edward Dowden
His Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) was the first book in English to attempt a unified and rounded picture of Shakespeare’s development as an artist, studying him in terms of successive periods. His other works on Shakespeare include the primer Shakspere…
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Shakespeare
- In William Shakespeare: Increasing importance of scholarship
Edward Dowden, in his Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875), analyzed the shape of Shakespeare’s career in a way that had not been possible earlier. A.C. Bradley’s magisterial Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), a book that remains highly readable, showed how the achievements of scholarship could be…
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