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This Is Shakespeare - How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright (Hardcover)
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This Is Shakespeare - How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright (Hardcover)
Series: Pelican Books
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A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the
plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop'
Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read
the plays at once' Hilary Mantel 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. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much
better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it
doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say
about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant,
deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his
inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on
revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays
and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually,
theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with
intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as
poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual
agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a
world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating
the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the
Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting
round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious
upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book
poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always
implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is
Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.
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