First published in 1968.
By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The work which the author sees Shakespeare striving to create is the perfect fusion of comedy and tragedy and he suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of the disorder and lack of meaning in the world. Nevertheless, it remains faithful to the possibility that within the imaginable forms of drama there exists that play which will satisfy the basic human need for reassurance, order and control.
- ISBN10 041632200X
- ISBN13 9780416322002
- Publish Date December 1981 (first published July 1968)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Law Book Co of Australasia
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English