Abstract
A question not to be asked, say the literary critics. L.C. Knights' witty denunciation of Bradleian analysis became a part of our critical language when Knights thirty years ago entitled his influential essay "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?" Knights contended that "the only profitable approach to Shakespeare is a consideration of his plays as dramatic poems, of his use of language to obtain a total complex emotional response. Yet the bulk of Shakespeare criticism is concerned with his characters, his heroines, his love of Nature or his 'philosophy' — with everything, in short, except with the words on the page."
Recommended Citation
Fox, Alice
(1979)
"How Many Pregnancies Had Lady Macbeth?,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 14:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol14/iss1/7
