Description
Book SynopsisFew only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains and carries out a new method of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare. This book is the results of genuine study. The results arrived at, though imperfect, are also grounded on real similitudes between Shakespeare and his predecessors and contemporaries; and those similitudes, parallelisms, or adaptations of thought, by whichever name distinguished, often arose from the actual impression made on his mind and memory by the Emblematists whose works he had seen, read, and used.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Emblems and their Varieties, with some Early Example; Sketch of Emblem Book Literature previous to a.d. 1616; Shakespeares Attainments and Opportunities with respect to the Fine Arts; The Knowledge of Emblem Books in Britain, and general Indications that Shakespeare was acquainted with them; Six direct References in the Pericles to Books of Emblems, some of their Devices described, and of their Mottoes quoted; Classification of the Correspondencies and Parallelisms of Shakespeare with Emblem Writers; Miscellaneous Emblems, Recapitulation, and Conclusion; Appendix I - Coincidences between Shakespeare and Whitney; Appendix II - Subjects, Mottoes, and Sources of the Emblem Imprese; Appendix III - References to Passages from Shakespeare, and to the corresponding Devices of the Emblems treated; General Index.
