SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES SIMPLIFIED

Pioneer Publishing Company, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Pioneer Publishing Company, Fort Worth [Published Date: 1925]. Hardcover, 189 pp. No other printings listed. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with cream colored label with red and black lettering pasted on front and spine. Light bumping to edges of covers and light nicking and fraying to cloth at top and bottom oof spine. Chipping to edges of label on spine and light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Contents include: CH. I. THE LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE: Stratford-on-Avon; Ancestry; Birth and Early Training; Apprenticeship and Marriage; Departure from Stratford; Career in London; Return to Stratford; Death and Burial; Personal Characteristics; The Poems; The Plays; Jonsonâs Tribute. CH II. IMPORTANT EDITIONS OF THE PLAYS. CH. III. THE GREAT ACTORS: Richard Burbage; Thomas Betterton; Barton Booth; Charles Macmillan; David Garrick; Sarah Siddons; John Phillip Kemble; Charles Kemble; Edmund Kean; Junius Brutus Booth; William Charles Macready; Edwin Forrest; Charlotte Cushman; Edwin Booth; Lawrence Barrett. CH. IV: HOW TO STUDY A PLAY: Some Difficulties; Structure of the Play; The Reading of a Play; The Study of Human Nature; Quotations.; General Questions. CH V. OUTLINES OF THB PLAYS: Hamlet; Othello; The Merchant of Venice; Henry VIII; King Lear; The Tempest; Macbeth; Henry V; Richard III; A Midsummer Night's Dream.; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; As You like It; Julius Caesar; Henry IV., Part Il List of Illustrations; Bibliography. [From Preface] This volume is designed to furnish the student and the general reader with such information, in convenient form, as is needed for a proper appreciation of Shakespeare and his works. The commonly accepted facts concerning the great dramatist are plainly stated without the lengthy arguments which tend to confuse rather than assist the general reader. A bare mention only of the important editions of Shakespeare's works has been made, but it is believed that enough is given to lead the reader to an understanding of how the plays first got into print, and why some special editions of them are so encumbered with textual notes. Since the plays were written for the stage and not for the library, the actor is an important factor. The reader should have some acquaintance with the talented men and women who devoted their lives to the interpretation and presentation of the plays⦠The brief sketch of the great actors will be of special interest to both the student and the general reader. The brief account of the best method of procedure in the study of a play is designed to assist the student and the young teacher, and it will in no way hamper the experienced Shakespearean scholar. The outlines will remove the difficulties encountered in following the story where the plot is complicated. They will also serve as synopses of the plays, and can be used to advantage at the performances of the plays at the theater.