![]() ![]() ![]() in some detail." When this talk was reprinted in 1960, however, I felt obliged to confess in a footnote, "I no longer believe I shall really come to terms at great length with Shakespeare, but I leave the hope of 1948 in the text to remind myself of what seemed possible twelve years ago." Yet, twelve more years having passed, here is that impossible book. In one of the first lectures I ever gave before an audience of my academic peers, "Shakespeare and the Paradox of Illusion," I listed what seemed to me in 1948 his "four essential myths," then went on to say that "I hope some day to treat all four. O HAVE WRITTEN this book at last means to have kept at last a promise made to myself some twenty-five years ago, a promise long deferred and nearly despaired of. I: The Woman as Stranger or, "None but women left." II: The Jew as Stranger or, "'These be the Christian husbands." Ill: The Moor as Stranger or, "Almost damned in a fair wife.' IV: The New World Savage as Stranger or, " 'Tis new to thee." EPILOGUE INDEX Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! P R I N T E D IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOWE AND BRYDONE ( P R I N T E R S ) L T D, LONDON AND THETFORD BOUND BY G. FIRST PUBLISHED COPYRIGHT © CROOM HELM 2 - I O ![]()
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