Shakespeare's Comic Sequence

by Kenneth Muir

215 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Kenneth Arthur Muir was a literary scholar and author, prominent in the fields of Shakespeare studies and English Renaissance theatre. He served as King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University from 1951 to 1974.

Reviews

[Michael P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderfully fun book by one of the best Shakespeare scholars of the twentieth century and one of the nicest people in academia. Kenneth believed that Shakespeare evolved as an artist as he aged and that this can be seen by studying his comedies in sequence. His sequence is not my sequence and so I would interpret several minor things differently, but there is much insight and wisdom to be found in these pages.

[Ian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Muir, in his introduction describes his intention to continue, or go beyond G.L.Barber's SHAKESPEARE'S FESTIVE COMEDY. He doesn't.