Download or read book Art and Artifice in Shakespeare written by Elmer Edgar Stoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1933, this book argues that Shakespeare's concern was more for plot and contrast than character. Stoll examines many of Shakespeare's plays, predominantly Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet, and compares their method to that of earlier Renaissance and medieval plays as well as more modern compositions.