Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.

This volume brings together Frye's extensive writings on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers (excluding Milton, who is featured in other volumes), and includes major articles, introductions, public lectures, and four previously published books on Shakespeare.

Introduction * The Argument of Comedy * Don Quixote * Comic Myth in Shakespeare * Characterization in Shakespearean Comedy * Moliere's Tartuffe * Introduction to Shakespeare's Tempest * The Structure of Imagery in The Faerie Queene * Shakespeare's Experimental Comedy * Toast to the Memory of Shakespeare * The Tragedies of Nature and Fortune * How True a Twain * Recognition in The Winter's Tale * A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance * Shakespeare and the Modern World * Nature and Nothing * Fools of Time * General Editor's Introduction to Shakespeare Series * Shakespeare's The Tempest * Il Cortegiano * The Myth of Deliverance * Something Rich and Strange: Shakespeare's Approach to Romance * The Stage is all the World * Northrop Frye on Shakespeare * Speech on Acceptance of the Governor General's Award * Natural and Revealed Communities * Foreword to Unfolded Tales