This book is an attempt to analyze why certain moments in Shakespear's play give more pleasure than others. Too often, according to the author, literary criticism filters out pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, reducing poems to their lowest common denominator. He would rather analyze delight by replacing the modern emphasis upon interpretation with a kind of critical hedonism--the study of drama as a "superior amusement."
- ISBN10 087413269X
- ISBN13 9780874132694
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 September 2022
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 260
- Language English