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More copies of this ISBN:Shakespeare and Modern Cultureby Marjorie Garber
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All (“the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer”–Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is “that Shakespeare makes modernity and that modernity makes Shakespeare.” “The timelessness of Shakespeare,” Marjorie Garber writes, “is achieved by his recurrent timeliness”–by the ways in which his plays speak to modern and post-modern ideas of selfhood, love, youth and old age, government, and leadership. And, in turn, by the ways in which his works are disseminated throughout culture, high and low, taking on new meanings and definitions in the process. Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationship between Shakespeare and 20th century and contemporary culture — from James Joyce’s Ulysses to George W. Bush’s reading list. In The Merchant of Venice, she looks at the question of intention; in Hamlet, the matter of character; in King Lear, the dream of sublimity; in Othello, the persistence of difference; and in Macbeth, the necessity of interpretation. She discusses the conundrum of man in The Tempest; the quest for exemplarity in Henry V; the problem of fact in Richard III; the estrangement of self in Coriolanus; and the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet. A tour de force study of our own mental and emotional landscape as reflected in and through protean “Shakespeare.” 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. Shakespeare After All was named one of the five best nonfiction books of 2004 by Newsweek and received the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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