Endeavors of Art: A study of form in Elizabethan drama

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""Endeavors of Art has a historical setting, but its preoccupations and point of view are timeless. Although its primary purpose is to define the achievements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists by placing them in their working frame of artistic reference^ the resulting interpretations of the plays can also be considered as demonstrations that art is habit and not speculative science. The book is not just another attempt at the imaginative recreation] of some fragment of Renaissance culture, but it is an exploration of those forces which shaped the artistic habits of the dramatists!'
"This could well turn out to be one of the most important books about Elizabethan drama in recent years. Described by its author as an essay in historical criticism, though with an esthetic point of view, the main attempt is to seek the idea of form in the drama This is done less through analysis of the English materials, the plays themselves, than through the building up of a picture of the... Tovább

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""Endeavors of Art has a historical setting, but its preoccupations and point of view are timeless. Although its primary purpose is to define the achievements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists by placing them in their working frame of artistic reference^ the resulting interpretations of the plays can also be considered as demonstrations that art is habit and not speculative science. The book is not just another attempt at the imaginative recreation] of some fragment of Renaissance culture, but it is an exploration of those forces which shaped the artistic habits of the dramatists!'
"This could well turn out to be one of the most important books about Elizabethan drama in recent years. Described by its author as an essay in historical criticism, though with an esthetic point of view, the main attempt is to seek the idea of form in the drama This is done less through analysis of the English materials, the plays themselves, than through the building up of a picture of the heritage of their ideas, principally from European critical sources -r The stimulation to one's critical ideas is a keen one, and the work is a mine not only of information but of ideas for further working out!'
Virginia Quarterly Review
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" for me the most satisfying book of the year Learned, judicious, thoughtfully analytical, luminous and free from jargon. In its fullness and careful organization it is a sort of Summa Dramatica: but its method is inductive, undogmatic!'
William T. Hastings in Shakespeare Quarterly
" the general reader as well as the specialist will be pleased to encounter a freshness and vitality that wears its scholarship lightly, and few will not be the wiser for having read this book!'
Times Literary Supplement
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