Shakespeare and the Revolution of the Times

"Superb re ading, meaty and challenging. . . . As impressive in detail as it is in its larger judgments. It is hard which to admire more, the scholarship contained in it or the uses to which it is put." THOMAS LASK in The New York Times "One of the most attractive features of these essays is their suggestiveness. They constantly beckon beyond the immediate subject to larger questions. . . ." O. B. HARDISON, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., ill. The New Republic "Harry Levin is a very distinguished comparativist . . . and anyone who has read, for example, Professor Levin's book on Marlowe or his critical introduction to James Joyce will know that the range of his reading is matched by personal responsiveness and literary insight." L. c. KNIGHTsin The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Harry Levin's collected essays are full of aggressive good sense. It is surprising to see how much he has been involved in critical arguments, which range from problems of the plays to those other problems constituted by criticism itself. The former are typified by the motives of Iago and Othello; the latter by his powerful and lucid debates with Eliot, Leavis, Knights, Battenhouse, Frye, Margaret Mead, and others. The book is in fact a commentary on assertions and errors, and a very good one at that."RONALD BERMAN in The Sewanee Review Harry Levin, co-editor of The Riverside Shakespeare and author of numerous critical studies, is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

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