Four Centuries Of Shakespearian Criticism by Frank Kermode
A concise scholarly survey that traces four centuries of responses to Shakespeare’s plays, mapping how changing cultural, aesthetic and intellectual priorities—from Renaissance commentary and eighteenth-century neoclassicism through Romantic imagination, Victorian biographical and psychological readings to twentieth-century textual scholarship, performance studies and theoretical approaches—have reshaped interpretation. The book highlights major critical figures and debates, shows how shifts in taste, politics and scholarly method altered the plays’ meanings, and reflects on how Shakespeare’s status as a cultural touchstone has been constructed and contested. Combining close reading with historiographical analysis, it argues that criticism is both a response to the works and a mirror of the critics’ own eras.
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