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  • ShakespeareThe Held and Its Quarterings*
  • Clifford Leech (bio)
Gordon Ross Smith, A Classified Shakespeare Bibliography 1936–1958. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1963. Pp. lx, 784. $37.50.
Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1963. 2 vols. Pp. xviii, 507; x, 560. $26.00.
Christopher Spencer, ed., Davenant’s Macbeth from the Yale Manuscript: An Edition, with a Discussion of the Relation of Davenant’s Text to Shakespeare’s. New Haven: Yale University Press (Montreal: McGill University Press). 1961. Pp. xiv, 226. $5.00.
Charles H. Shattuck, ed., William Charles Macready’s King John: A Facsimile Prompt-Book. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1962. Pp. viii, 75 (followed by facsimile). $6.95.
Frances Ann Shirley, Shakespeare’s Use of Off-Stage Sounds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1963. Pp. xviii, 258. $5.00.
Roland Mushat Frye, Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1963, Pp. x, 314. $6.00.
Hilda M. Hulme, Explorations in Shakespeare’s Language: Some Problems of Lexical Meaning in the Dramatic Text. London: Longmans (Toronto: Longmans). 1962. Pp. xii, 351. $6.00.
Anne Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. London: Chatto and Windus. 1962. Pp. 224. $5.00.
Ernest Schanzer, The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books. 1963. Pp. x, 196. $4.95.
Walter Kaiser, Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1963. Pp. xiv, 318. $7.75.
Allardyce Nicoll, ed., Shakespeare Survey 16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1963. Pp. x, 189. $6.00.
A. L. Rowse, William Shakespeare: A Biography. London: Macmillan (Toronto: Macmillan). 1963. Pp. xiv, 485. $8.95.
Robert Bechtold Heilman, This Great Stage: Image and Structure in King Lear. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1963. Pp. xii, 339. $5.00.
Edward A. Armstrong, Shakespeare’s Imagination: A Study of the Psychology of Association and Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1963. Pp. vi, 230. $1.60.
Sister Miriam Joseph, Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Time: Literary Theory of Renaissance Europe. New York and Burlingame: Harcourt, Brace and World. 1962. Pp. xii, 1–40, 283–421. $2.25.
Clifford Leech

Professor of English, University College, University of Toronto; editor of Mildmay Fane’s Raguaillo d’Oceano and Candy Restored (1938), and author of Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Other Studies in Seventeenth Century Drama (1950), John Webster: A Critical Study (1951), John Ford and the Drama of his Time (1957), The John Fletcher Plays (1962), and O’Neill (1963)

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* Gordon Ross Smith, A Classified Shakespeare Bibliography 1936–1958. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1963. Pp. lx, 784. $37.50.

Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1963. 2 vols. Pp. xviii, 507; x, 560. $26.00.

Christopher Spencer, ed., Davenant’s Macbeth from the Yale Manuscript: An Edition, with a Discussion of the Relation of Davenant’s Text to Shakespeare’s. New Haven: Yale University Press (Montreal: McGill University Press). 1961. Pp. xiv, 226. $5.00.

Charles H. Shattuck, ed., William Charles Macready’s King John: A Facsimile Prompt-Book. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1962. Pp. viii, 75 (followed by facsimile). $6.95.

Frances Ann Shirley, Shakespeare’s Use of Off-Stage Sounds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1963. Pp. xviii, 258. $5.00.

Roland Mushat Frye, Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1963, Pp. x, 314. $6.00.

Hilda M. Hulme, Explorations in Shakespeare’s Language: Some Problems of Lexical Meaning in the Dramatic Text. London: Longmans (Toronto: Longmans). 1962. Pp. xii, 351. $6.00.

Anne Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. London: Chatto and Windus. 1962. Pp. 224. $5.00.

Ernest Schanzer, The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books. 1963. Pp. x, 196. $4.95.

Walter Kaiser, Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1963. Pp. xiv, 318. $7.75.

Allardyce Nicoll, ed., Shakespeare Survey 16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1963. Pp. x, 189. $6.00.

A. L. Rowse, William Shakespeare: A Biography. London...

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