In this, her last book, rosalie l. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft.
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