Further Explorations by L. C. Knights. Stanford University Press, $5.00.
More than a generation ago, in what has proved to be his most widely known critical utterance, L. C. Knights urged with more than a little vehemence that Shakespeare’s plays be regarded as unified structures rather than as portrait galleries. “How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?” was an attempt to rescue Shakespeare criticism from what Knights regarded as the thralldom of character analysis.
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