Book description
CONTENTS:
PART I – Earlier Critics of "Richard II"
JOHN DRYDEN
NAHUM TATE
SAMUEL JOHNSON
S. T. COLERIDGE
W. C. HAZLITT
EDWARD DOWDEN
WALTER PATER
C. E. MONTAGUE
W. B. YEATS
A. C. SWINBURNE
PART II – Recent Comment on Production
JOHN GIELGUD – King Richard the Second
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN – Narrative and Focus: "Richard II"
PART III – Modern Studies of "Richard II"
RICHARD D. ALTICK – Symphonic Imagery in "Richard II"
E. M. W. TILLYARD – "Richard II" in the Second Tetralogy
M. C. BRADBROOK – Tragical-Historical: "Richard II"
BRENTS STIRLING – "Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know"
E. H. KANTOROWICZ – From "The King’s Two Bodies"
M. M. MAHOOD – Wordplay in "Richard II"
A. P. ROSSITER – Unconformity in "Richard II"
NICHOLAS BROOKE – Divine Substitutes and Streams of Blood
