...Brents Stirling 234 Reviews absolutes into literary history under the guise, paradoxically enough, of offering explanations. A more careful formulation would have made such statements more concrete and also more meaningful. Professor Kennedy’s outstanding...

...Brents Stirling W. B. C. Watkins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Pp. ix + 339. $5.00. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 Haldcm Braddy 75 today, nothing is reported; instead, Dr. Thomas follows her mentor, R. S...

...Brents Stirling Alwin Thaler. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1941. Pp. xi + 312. $2.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 334 Reviews private theatres, to which the lowest price of admission was 6d., put an end...

...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 DANIEL’S PHILOTAS AND THE ESSEX CASE By BRENTSSTIRLING This study is concerned with charges brought against Samuel Daniel, a few years after the trial and execution of the Earl of Essex...

...Brents Stirling James Emerson Phillips, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Pp. 230. $2.75. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 144 Reviews The State in Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman Plays. By JAMES EMERSONPHILLIPS, Jr. New York...

...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ANTI-DEMOCRACY IN SHAKESPEARE : A RE-SURVEY By BRENTSSTIRLING It is well known that the political theme in Shakespeare lays systematic stress upon hierarchy and social discip1ine.l...

...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THEME AND CHARACTER IN HAMLET By BRENTSSTIRLING As the motion picture Hamlet opens, a disembodied voice is heard to say, “This is a play about a man who could not make up his mind...

...John Arthos Brents Stirling. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Pp. 203. $3.00. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Marshall W. Stearns 499 the voice of our present ideologies.” Aside from the irrelevance of such a thesis...

... with Ben Jonson’s 1623 tribute to Shakespeare’s art, rather than with his earlier complaint of his lack of art. The other book is an ingenious attempt by Brents Stirling to rectify the con- fused arrangement of the first edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Vickers, who has dm written a good book...

... criteria in a vacuum Here the formalistic approach is self-destructive. MARSHALLW. STEARNS Hunter College The Populace in Shakespeare. By BRENTSSTIRLING. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Pp. 203. $3.00. Professor Stirling’s...

...Edward Hubler Stirling Brents. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Pp. viii + 212. $3.75. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS Unity in Shakes/warian Tragedy: Thc Znterplay of Theme and Character. By BRENTSSTIRLING. New...

... over” from Sonnet 93, but why should we assume that this is the case? l2 In addition to Landry and Brents Stirling (The Shakespeare Sonnet Order: Poems and Groups [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968 see J. W. Lever, The Elizabethan Love Sonnet, 2nd ed. (London...

...,” “Responsorium, Tu autem domine” [First Les- son; Response: But you, Lord], etc In this section of the poem Dun- bar presents himself as a dweller in paradise (at 11. 71ff. he compares himself to the archangel Gabriel); he describes the joys of Edinburgh as compared with the purgatory of Stirling, where...

... for the prosecu- tion was first presented by Brents Stirling in his article in the Modern Language Qwtedy in 1942, and it has since been elaborated by Laurence Michel in his edition of Philotas (1949) ; no rejoinder has yet been made.l The first ground for connecting Philotas with the Essex affair...

....” Lexington : University Press of Kentucky . Stillman Anne . 2014 . “ Samuel Beckett’s Lyrical Ballads .” Thinking Verse 4 , no. 1 : 110 – 39 . Stirling James Hutchison . 1865 . The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form and Matter . 2 vols...

.... Brents Stirling’s essay on the Seleucus scene seems to be definitive. He clearly demonstrates that the ambiguity of the scene is purposeful, part of a series of parallel scenes which present Cleo- patra in terms of a “dialectic of resolution and backsliding, selflessness and vanity and which...

... by Miss Dorothy F. Atkinson and Dr. Brents Stirling, although completed earlier, did not appear until Book VI was published. Dr. Padelford’s contribution to the Variorum Spenser project is ap- parent throughout all the volumes, and includes sections on the Muse...

... to write important tragedy with a deliberately diminished hero. Professor Stirling has written modestly. Nothing could be less polemical. He has assumed that “thinking people are happier if given material for thought and allowed to think.” Every reader will have, of course, his reservations...

...Donald Cornu Donald M. Berwick. Philadelphia: The College Offset Press, 1941. Pp. 170. (Princeton diss.). Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Bren ts Stirling 337 the title essay, there are important conclusions in it which bear...

...Richard F. Jones Bvents Stirling 235 period pieces; it is an admixture of fancifulness and dullness which add up to tedious virtuosity. I venture this as but a mild protest to the editor for sharing a sin of many commentators upon certain...