What Is Shakespeare? an Introduction to the Great Plays

1902. A volume intended to make Shakespeare and his works more accessible. Sherman writes that the purpose here is to take some play or plays, such as our mentors must have had in mind, when they tried to administer Shakespeare to us, and test their spirit and purport just as if they had been written in the shape of novels, and by some modern master. Contents: What is Shakespeare?; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; Romeo and Juliet; The Dramatic Art of Macbeth; Shakespeare the Man; The Groupings of the Play; and Personal Study of the Plays.