DAVIES, W. Robertson
The rare first edition of Robertson Davies' first book. Davies left Canada to study at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a BLitt degree in 1938. The next year he published this book, his thesis. "The object of this study is to demonstrate the way in which the Shakespearian women's roles are written to exploit fully the capacity of the boy actors for easy and febrile emotion without demanding the greater range of passion which only time and experience can bring" (p. 27).
