Shakespeare and the Nature of Man by Theodore Spencer. Macmillan. $2.75
Mr. Spencer undertakes three critical tasks. He presents his pattern of the Renaissance intellectual background, relates Shakespeare’s plays to this pattern, and thus deduces Shakespeare’s philosophical autobiography and its implicit allegory. To speak plainly at the beginning, I disagree with all of the author’s larger interpretations, and I find myself for the most part uninformed by his smaller interpretations. But before discussing these I shall state his thesis more fully.
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