Dec 31, 2009

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare | Croce, Benedetto

Croce, Benedetto (1866–1952),
Italian philosopher and literary critic. Croce, shifting discussion away from the artist's personality and mind to the work itself, with its own self-sufficient laws, represents a reaction against 19th-century criticism. Shakespeare (1943), extracted and translated from Ariosto, Shakespeare, e Corneille (1920), offers just such an analysis.

Tom Matheson