Una Ellis-Fermor - Shakespeare the Dramatist: And Other Papers

UNA ELLIS-FERMOR

SHAKESPEARE
THE DRAMATIST

and other papers

BY
UNA ELLIS-FERMOR

EDITED BY
KENNETH MUIR

METHUEN & CO LTD
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First published 1961

Copyright 1961 Elaine Weston & Elsie Brown
Printed in Great Britain
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Catalogue number 2/6430/10

Contents

W HEN I WAS ASKED by Una Ellis-Fermor's executors and publishers to prepare for the press a volume of her critical essays, I gladly undertook the task because I had been an admirer of her criticism for nearly thirty years. This book contains a substantial part of the work on Shakespeare which promised to be her masterpiece.

My thanks are due to the executors, to Professor Kathleen Tillotson, to Professor Hardin Craig for his valuable advice, to Dr G. K. Hunter and Mr Ernest Schanzer for help of various kinds, and to Miss Judith Darbey.

Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the journals and to the publishers listed on pp. ixxi for permission to include some sections of the book.

KENNETH MUIR

I BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

Christopher Marlowe, Methuen, 1927.

The Jacobean Drama, Methuen, 1936, Second edition 1947, Third edition 1953, Fourth edition 1958.

Some Recent Research in Shakespeare's Imagery, Shakespeare Association, Pamphlet 21, 1937.

The Irish Dramatic Movement, Methuen, 1939, Second edition 1954.

Masters of Reality, Methuen, 1942.

The Frontiers of Drama, Methuen, 1945, Second edition 1946, Third edition 1948.

The Study of Shakespeare. Inaugural Lecture at Bedford College, Methuen, 1948.

Shakespeare the Dramatist, Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, 1948.

II EDITIONS

Tamburlaine the Great, in Two Parts. By Christopher Marlowe. The Works and life of Christopher Marlowe. General Editor, R. H. Case, Methuen, 1930, Second edition 1951.

Caelica. By Fulke Greville, Gregynog Press, 1936.

Essays and Studies of the English Association, XXIX, 1944.

The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen, General Editor, 19461958.

General Editor's Preface in Macbeth ed. K. Muir, 1951, pp. viiix.

III CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS, LEARNED JOURNALS, AND OTHER PERIODICALS

Timon of Athens: An unfinished play, The Review of English Studies, XVIII, 1942, pp. 27083.

Literary History and Criticism: General Works. The Year's Work in English Studies:

XXI, 1940 (1942) pp. 719.