EDITORIAL.

Introduces articles in the summer 1965 issue of “The Critical Quarterly.” Changes in Shakespearean criticism; General movement of critical ideas; Writing style of the critics of the 1930s and 1940s; Ways in which the directions of the 1960s could be seen as a delayed perception that the very central insights of Imagism were right; Resonances which the allegorizing critics attempted to form into a system; Argument that the rejection of oversimplified moral schemes for William Shakespeare and other writers is not anarchy; Plea for the delicate and sensitive attention to life which the great writers offer and which make all oversimplified morality impossible in art and life.