Date of Award

1968

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

English

Abstract

The unity, or stylistic oneness, that is the most salient characteristic of Shakespeare's style has been achieved with such consummate ease that the underlying pattern of workmanship is imperceptible at a casual reading. Upon analysis, however, the ingenious means which the playwright has employed, perhaps unconsciously, to create this effect of unity easily may be discerned.

This paper is an analysis of the stage properties in six plays and their function in the plays' overall design. In this study it may be seen that within each play each stage property is so imaginatively used that it seems at once both natural and wonderful. Each property, upon careful examination yields moreover a striking significance not only to the individual play, but also to the reality-illusion motif which is the implicit theme of the entire canon.

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