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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Publication Date
- 2020-03-31
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781524748548
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1524748544
ISBN-13
9781524748548
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038766127
Product Key Features
Book Title
This Is Shakespeare
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Drama, Television / History & Criticism, Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-028316
Reviews
Advance Praise from the U.K.: "I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page." --Hilary Mantel "If I were asked to recommend one guide for readers keen on discovering what's at stake in Shakespeare's plays, This Is Shakespeare would be it." --James Shapiro "I like this book very much. It explains accessibly, with learning lightly worn, why Shakespeare retains such a hold in our culture. Smith has done an exemplary job of restoring the greatest of English writers to his own time, and explaining why he then speaks to ours . . . An invigorating examination of the pre-eminence of the most revered figure of English letters." -- The Times "Quirky, brilliant . . . what's most bracing about Smith's book is the way she sees the plays as almost organic: not only contradictory but alive" -- Spectator "Intriguing . . . Smith argues that the defining characteristic of Shakespeare's plays is their 'permissive gappiness.' This must also surely be the first book on Shakespeare to use the slang term 'woke.'" -- Evening Standard, Advance Praise from the U.K.: "I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page." --Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies "If I were asked to recommend one guide for readers keen on discovering what's at stake in Shakespeare's plays, This Is Shakespeare would be it." --James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 "Brilliantly illuminating . . . The best introduction to Shakespeare's plays that I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop. Emma Smith's voice is disarmingly frank, refreshingly irreverent, full of pop culture . . . Her reading of the plays is dazzling, her original research totally convincing." --Alex Preston, The Observer (London) "Thought-provoking . . . Anyone who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about should read This Is Shakespeare. Smith--who is no enemy of fun: her book fizzes with jokes--is celebrating a Shakespeare who talks to the present. She does it all with such a light touch you barely notice how much you're learning." --Colin Burrow, The Guardian (London) "Smith is perhaps the preeminent Shakespeare communicator working today. This Is Shakespeare cuts through the accumulated crust of 'schoolroom platitudes,' cant, and literary piety in order to dust Shakespeare off and see him as he is, was, and might be." --Tim Smith-Laing, The Daily Telegraph (London) "I like this book very much. It explains accessibly, with learning lightly worn, why Shakespeare retains such a hold in our culture. Smith has done an exemplary job of restoring the greatest of English writers to his own time, and explaining why he then speaks to ours . . . An invigorating examination of the pre-eminence of the most revered figure of English letters." -- The Times "Quirky, brilliant . . . what's most bracing about Smith's book is the way she sees the plays as almost organic: not only contradictory but alive" -- Spectator "Intriguing . . . Smith argues that the defining characteristic of Shakespeare's plays is their 'permissive gappiness.' This must also surely be the first book on Shakespeare to use the slang term 'woke.'" -- Evening Standard
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
822.33
Table Of Content
Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Taming of the Shrew 7 Chapter 2: Richard III 23 Chapter 3: The Comedy of Errors 39 Chapter 4: Richard II 53 Chapter 5: Romeo and Juliet 67 Chapter 6: A Midsummer Night's Dream 83 Chapter 7: The Merchant of Venice 99 Chapter 8: 1 Henry IV 113 Chapter 9: Much Ado About Nothing 129 Chapter 10: Julius Caesar 145 Chapter 11: Hamlet 161 Chapter 12: Twelfth Night 177 Chapter 13: Measure for Measure 193 Chapter 14: Othello 209 Chapter 15: King Lear 223 Chapter 16: Macbeth 239 Chapter 17: Antony and Cleopatra 255 Chapter 18: Coriolanus 271 Chapter 19: The Winter's Tale 287 Chapter 20: The Tempest 303 Epilogue 321 References and Further Reading 325 Acknowledgements 339 Index 341
Synopsis
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing--not resolving--the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith--an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer--takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities., An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality. A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. Now, Emma Smith--an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer--takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex, and the Shakespeare she reveals in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean.
LC Classification Number
PR2976.S495 2020
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