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This is Shakespeare / Emma Smith

By: Language: eng Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2021Description: 349 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781984898159
  • 1984898159
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR 2976 S646t 2021
Contents:
The taming of the shrew -- Richard III -- The comedy of errors -- Richard II -- Romeo and Juliet -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- 1 Henry IV -- Much ado about nothing -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- Twelfth night -- Measure for measure -- Othello -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- The winter's tale -- The tempest.
Summary: 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
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PR 2976 S646t 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000162697
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PR 2976 S527b 2016 Bard in brief : Shakespeare in quotations / PR 2976 S527N 2007 Shakespeare the Thinker / PR 2976 S527R 2001 Tiempo con Shakespeare / PR 2976 S646t 2021 This is Shakespeare / PR 2976 T686s 1999 Shakespeare for beginners / PR 2976 W456w 2015 William Shakespeare : a very short introduction / PR 2981 G285c 2008 The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies /

The taming of the shrew --
Richard III --
The comedy of errors --
Richard II --
Romeo and Juliet --
A midsummer night's dream --
The merchant of Venice --
1 Henry IV --
Much ado about nothing --
Julius Caesar --
Hamlet --
Twelfth night --
Measure for measure --
Othello --
King Lear --
Macbeth --
Antony and Cleopatra --
Coriolanus --
The winter's tale --
The tempest.

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

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