Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist by Richard Green Moulton - 9781108030823

Shakespeare as a Dramatic ArtistA Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism\nAuthor(s): Richard Green Moulton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108030823, 978-1108030823\nSynopsis\nWritten by British American critic Richard Moulton [tel], this influential study of Shakespeare's dramatic technique introduces Moulton's 'prescience' of scientific criticism, an approach to literature that would later develop into modern literary theory. Moulton, who served as professor of English literature at Chicago, stated that his object was to 'claim for criticism a position amongst the inductive sciences, and to sketch in outline a plan for the dramatic side of such a critical science', arguing that Shakespeare's genius lay in his mastery of his dramatic art as much as in his deep knowledge of human nature. Published in 1893, this third edition expands significantly on the material in the.