Close Reading without Readings: Essays on Shakespeare and Others

Synopsis

Foreword / By Harry Keyishian -- Poetic Richness, A Preliminary Audit: Antony And Cleopatra 3.10 -- The Acquiescent Audience -- Desdemona's Eyes And The Aesthetics Of Blindness -- 2 Henry Iv And The Aesthetics Of Failure -- Faith In The Winter's Tale And Faith In The Winter's Tale -- A Discourse On The Witty Partition Of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Twelfth Night And Othello: Those Extraordinary Twins -- Deviation, Variation, And Variety In Stanza 1 Of Venus And Adonis -- On The Eventfulness Of Hero And Leander -- Prelapsarian Eroticism: Paradise Lost -- On The Aesthetic Significance Of Non-signifying Signification In Romeo And Juliet -- Liking Julius Caesar -- On The Value Of Hamlet. Stephen Booth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.