Product Description: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the magic begins. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend...read more

Product Description: This set, which was originally an expansion of Professor Dover Wilson's Sandars lectures of 1934, has been out of print for many years and is now reissued. It was the first of three sets in which the author presented his long and painstaking work on Shakespeare's Hamlet and deals with the textual problems...read more

Product Description: THE SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND THE SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND A STUDY IN RENAISSANCE EDITED BY J. DOVER WILSON, Lrrr. D. PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, KINGS COLLEGE WITH A PREFACE BY LORD EUSTACE PERCY PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION CHAPEL HILL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 1929 Lords and Commons of England consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit acute to invent, subtik and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to...read more

Product Description: 1929. Contents: Introduction, the ghost scenes in Hamlet in the light of Elizabethan spiritualism; a note on the text; list of corrections; Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght; Appendix, the Catholic position in the ghost controversy of the 16th century, with special reference to Pierre Le Loyers IIII Livres des Spectres (1586)...read more

Product Description: Possibly the best concise volume on Shakespeare ever to appear.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College. Books for Junior College Libraries.

Product Description: Dr Dover Wilson examines Falstaff's role in the two parts of Henry IV and his relationship to the Prince. Like most other Shakespearean scholars he had accepted, Bradley's portrait as shown in The Rejection of Falstaff, until (as he writes) he 'began checking it with yet another portrait - that which I found in the pages of Shakespeare himself...read more