Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972

Shakespeare & Co.

By L.C. Knights
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays
by Frank Kermode

Viking Press, 308 pp., $7.95

The Masks of Othello
by Marvin Rosenberg

University of California, 313 pp., $12.75

The Masks of King Lear
by Marvin Rosenberg

University of California, 431 pp., $13.75

Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition
by Reuben A. Brower

Oxford University Press, 440 pp., $10.50

I begin with three quotations. On August 17, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, writing to the actor James Hackett, said:



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