|
 
$22.00
New Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsShakespeare After Allby Marjorie Garber
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time. Review:"Shakespeare After All is, in many ways, a return to the times when the critic's primary function was as an enthusiast, to open up the glories of the written work for the reader." Dinitia Smith, The New York Times Review:"The indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer....Garber's is the most exhilarating seminar room you'll ever enter." Newsweek Review:"The best one-volume critical guide to the plays....Stimulating and informative." San Jose Mercury News Review:"[B]rings the trend [of Shakespeare for the masses] to its high water mark....What makes [it] such a delight is that Garber assimilates all that is best in recent scholarship and criticism without sounding either pedantic or esoteric." Providence Journal Review:"An enraptured ceremony of adoration....Ambitious and thorough....This is a useful book [and] a source of elucidation." Newsday Review:"Spanning nearly 1,000 pages...the detailed coverage that Garber supplies may leave some readers feeling overwhelmed rather than stimulated. She also stretches out the book with long quotations, many of which could have been trimmed or cut altogether." Boston Globe Review:"[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 Synopsis:Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the 20th century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, in chronological sequence. About the AuthorMarjorie 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. Table of ContentsA Note on the Text Introduction The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Richard III The Comedy of Errors Loves Labours Lost Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Nights Dream Richard II King John The Merchant of Venice Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing Henry V Julius Caesar As You Like It Hamlet Twelfth Night Troilus and Cressida Measure for Measure Othello Alls Well That Ends Well Timon of Athens King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Pericles Coriolanus Cymbeline The Winters Tale The Tempest Henry VIII (All Is True) The Two Noble Kinsmen Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Acknowledgments General Index Character Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
Other books you might like
Related Aisles
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Follow us on...
|
||||||||||||||||
Don't Miss
