Early Shakespeare
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2019
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Paperback/Softback
574 pages
978-3-933077-54-7 (ISBN)
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In Early Shakespeare, A. Bronson Feldman, a scholar with wide-ranging inter-ests, uses biographical, historical, and psychoanalytic approaches to analyze Shakespeare's first ten plays in the order of their composition. He shows that the author developed a pattern of alternating comedies with romances, begin-ning with The Comedy of Errors, and eventually engaged in an experiment in tragedy with the writing of Titus Andronicus. The result is a book that sheds light not only on these ten plays, but also on their author, the court of Eliza-beth, the conflicts of the time, and the culture of the period. It represents a major contribution to the scholarship associated with J. Thomas Looney's discovery that Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was the true author behind the pen name William Shakespeare.
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Abraham Bronson Feldman (1914-1982) earned the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in literature from the University of New Mexico. He eventually earned the Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he wrote a doc-toral dissertation on the influence of the Dutch wars on Tudor drama. He later trained as a lay psychoana-lyst by studying under Dr. Theodor Reik, the disciple of Freud. He practiced as an analyst and taught history at the Community College of Philadelphia. He is the author of such books as The Unconscious in His-tory, Stalin, The Red Lord of Russia, and Hamlet Himself. He also pub-lished approximately one hundred articles in such journals as the Shakespeare Fellowship Quarterly, the American Imago, the Psychoanalytic Re-view, Notes and Queries, Kronus, and Catastrophism and Ancient History.
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