Shakespeare allusions and parallels,

Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, 1931. Paperback. Good+/None. [Lehigh university] The Institute of research. Circular no. 51. Studies in the humanities no. 8 Light brown staplebound softcover with black titling; edges are softened. Penciled price on front. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in 13 B&W reproductions. 'The allusions and parallels printed in this pamphlet have been selected by the editor from more than five hundred passages submitted to him by Mr. A. Bruce Black of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. They are, with a few exceptions, not the editor's, but Mr. Black's discoveries, the fruit of many years of intensive reading in his valuable library of Shakespeare allusion books. Mr. Black's remarkable associative memory enables him not only to discover like expressions and ideas throughout English Poetry, but to locate them readily in the works, particularly of Shakespeare and his successors. The 566 passages from which these have been selected comprise all shades and degrees of likeness whether of thought or expression; they range all the way from maxims and phraseology that were current coin in the seventeenth century, slight verbal similarities, coincidences of faint echoes of Shakespearean thought or style, from doubtful, possible, probable, or unconscious borrowings, to obvious parallels and outright references not only to Shakespeare's characters and plays, but to Shakespeare himself.' (-from the Foreword by the Editor). 59 p. incl. facsims. and indexes. 23 cm.