Shakespeare After All
$60.52
- Paperback
1008 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2005
Summary
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.
Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385722148 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385722141 |
| Author: | Marjorie Garber |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1008 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 42mm |
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Critics Review
“The indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer… . Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” –Newsweek
“The best one-volume critical guide to the plays… . Stimulating and informative.” –San Jose Mercury News
“An enraptured ceremony of adoration… . Ambitious and thorough… . This is a useful book [and] a source of elucidation.” –Newsday
“[Garber’s] introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading.” –The New Yorker
About The Author
Marjorie Garber
Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and American Literature and Language and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge and Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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