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The author attempts to analyze some of the Shakespearean characters in the light of 'accepted' present-day psychologies. Thus he tries to interpret Hamlet according to Freud, the Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest according to Jung's collective unconscious, Richard the Third according to Adler's doctrines, and King Henry the Eighth according to the gestalt principle. The material is deftly handled but is superficial, especially the freudian analysis. The author chose his material wisely since it would have been much