Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: A Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism

Contents include prefaces to the first three editions, twenty chapters, and an introduction. The main sections are: Plea for an Inductive Science of Literary Criticism; Shakespeare Considered as a Dramatic Artist, in Fifteen Studies; and Survey of Dramatic Criticism as an Inductive Science. There is a general index, and an index of each discussed scene. Richard Green Moulton (1849-1924), an English author and critic, was Professor of Literary Theory and Interpretation at the University of Chicago, 1891-1919; author of other Shakespeare works of criticism, and re-editor of Modern Reader's Bible (1907). He was also the brother of Baron Moulton, Queen Victoria's counsel.