...Harry Berger, Jr. Harry Berger, Jr. What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis y\mbivalence, guilt, aggressivity, masoch­ ism, sexuality, displacement, projection, de­ sire, repression; fantasies of omnipotence, emasculation, violation, terrible...

...Maurice Charney Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater . Edited by Bergeron David M. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. vii , 251 . $26.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 401 Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater. Edited...

...Larry S. Champion Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Content . By Levin Richard A. . Newark : The University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses , 1985 . Pp. 9 , 203 . $26.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press...

...Robert L. Shurter Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA ROBERT L. SHURTER THE FIRST Shakespearean play of which we have any record in America was presented in New York on March 5, 1750. From that date until the Revolution...

...Harry T. Baker Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE SHAKESPEAREAN SERENITY HARRY T. BAKER ONE OF THE most definite impressions which a thought­ ful reader gets from Shakespeare is that of serenity. And it is one of those things which make him best worth reading. It is evident...

...Ronald Berman Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Shakespearean Comedy and the Uses of Reason Ronald Berman The dialogue of The Courtier begins after Cesar Gonzago suggests that every man doe his best to grounde his opinion upon some sure signs and argument. With a kind...

...S. K. Heninger, Jr. The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined . By Friedman William F. Friedman Elizebeth S. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . Pp. xvii , 303 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 516 The South Atlantic Quarterly Svendsen s...

...Richard W. Van Fossen Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises . By Battenhouse Roy W. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1969 . Pp. 466 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly The book is good to read...

... of F. L. Lucas. DUKE UNIVERSITY HELEN BEVINGTON Some Shakespearean Themes. By L. C. Knights. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960. Pp. 183. $3.50. The aim of Professor Knights s volume is to suggest a point of view from which Shakespeare s plays can be seen as parts of a continuous exploration...

... and Shakespeare (Oxford, 1958). 2 Twelfth Night and Shakespearean Comedy, Shakespeare Quarterly, VI (1955), 3. Comic Truth in Shakespeare and Jonson 79 written in the Elizabethan age, but it fails to eliminate important distinctions. For instance, it is clear to any reader of these plays that Jonson s comedies...

...: In Relation to King Lear. By Russell A. Fraser. New York: Hillary House Publishers, 1963. Pp. [xi], 184. $6.00. By Shakespeare s poetics, we learn at last on p. 139, Professor Fraser means the underlying principles which sustain Shakespearean drama to be explicit, the moral patterns in Shakespeare s plays...

... was just as skeptical: the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed the one has been considering thought, and the other action; one has watched the heart, and the other contemplated the face. Mrs. Carlisle s useful review of the Shakespearean criticism of English and American...

..., contemporary dramatists, the history of Shakespearean criticism. Unlike the Kittredge series, it presents few or no parallels in contemporary and earlier literature or linguistic interpretation; unlike the Kittredge and Arden series, it excludes critical interpretations of characters and action; unlike...

... Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. 628 The South Atlantic Quarterly According to Mr. Phialas, The chief idea of [Shakespearean romantic] comedy is the discovery and expression of an ideal attitude towards love and life. In the pattern that he finds to emerge from the plays he examines...

.... Price $2.00 124 pp. R. W. Babcock, The Genesis of Shakespearean Idolatry. Chapel Hill: Univer­ sity of North Carolina Press. 307 pp. C. A. Browne, Our National Ballads. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Price $2.50 315 pp. Clara Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs. Boston, Mass.: Houghton-Mifflin. Price $5.00...

... and in separate groups Shakespearean recollections, verbal and dramatic, in the prose and poetry of Milton. 482 The South Atlantic Quarterly Although these chapters deal with the general subject of Shakespearean drama, their topics are sufficiently diverse to make strict thematic unity nearly impossible...

... alienation, a conflict between order and renewal, a tragedy set on the foundations of Shakespearean comedy as elab­ orated by C. L. Barber and Northrop Frye.1 The pattern of the comedies, in summary, is a revitalization of society by means of a descent into foolery, madness, or Misrule ; as tragedy it would...

... as for the specialist. It epitomizes much of the history of a turbulent age. It is profusely and often charmingly illustrated. And, as befits the biography of a man whose whole life was in his writings, it quotes freely from Erasmus s own works. DUKE UNIVERSITY ARTHUR B. FERGUSON Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its...

... ture, a teacher of Shakespeare and practical rhetoric, I react badly to unin­ formed scholarship, insensitive criticism, and faulty reasoning. Here I should not. Robert Giroux is an honorable man, a leader in his profession. His book will not be read by Shakespeareans and his faulty history and shallow...

... standing and appraisal of Shakespeare. The five books assembled for discussion here are fairly representa­ tive of mid-century Shakespearean scholarship, illustrating both its virtues and its deficiencies. Ours is an age of specialists, and this specialization is reflected in these books. In the eighteenth...