Dary northrop biography of william shakespeare

"Northrop Frye on Shakespeare" was a great pleasure for me to read probably because I was an undergraduate at Victoria College in the 1970s while he was still teaching there.

The book is comprised of the lecture notes that Frye used for his undergraduate course on Shakespeare. The goal of these lectures it must be noted was not to present any of Frye's major theses but rather to tell freshmen and sophomores what they needed to know about Shakespeare in order to participate effectively in more advanced courses in their junior or senior years.

These lectures served brilliantly in their day but are they are probably not well-suited to the current crop of first year students who are arriving on campus with different reading experiences from those of my generation.

This much said, the pedagogical virtues of the lectures in this collection are many.

Frye is very good at explaining what can be learned from the study of the first published Shak