Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning

by Norman Rabkin

Book Overview

"Rabkin selects The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as the plays on which to build his argument, and he teaches us a great deal about these plays. . . . To convince the unbelievingthat that the plays do mean, but that the meaning is coterminous with the experience of the plays themselves, Rabkin finds a strategy more subtle than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226701786
• ISBN13: 9780226701783
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"