In one of the first lectures I ever gave before an audience of my academic peers, "Shakespeare and the Paradox of Illusion," I listed what seemed to me in 1948 his "four essential myths," then went on to say that "I hope some day to treat all four. O HAVE WRITTEN this book at last means to have kept at last a promise made to myself some twenty-five years ago, a promise long deferred and nearly despaired of. I: The Woman as Stranger or, "None but women left." II: The Jew as Stranger or, "'These be the Christian husbands." Ill: The Moor as Stranger or, "Almost damned in a fair wife.' IV: The New World Savage as Stranger or, " 'Tis new to thee." EPILOGUE INDEX ![]() Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! P R I N T E D IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOWE AND BRYDONE ( P R I N T E R S ) L T D, LONDON AND THETFORD BOUND BY G. ![]() ![]() FIRST PUBLISHED COPYRIGHT © CROOM HELM 2 - I O
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