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Reading Shakespeare Reading Me (Hardcover)
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A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape
your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what
scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour
a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they
are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become
Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience
the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them, and they
are speaking to your life, your sensibility. Drawing on fifty years
as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan has produced a captivating book
that asks us to reconsider what it means to read. Barkan violates
the rule of distance he was taught and has always taught his
students. He asks: Where does this brilliantly contrived fiction
actually touch me? Where is Shakespeare in effect telling the story
of my life? King Lear, for Barkan, raises unanswerable questions
about what exactly a father does after planting the seed. Mothers
from Gertrude to Lady Macbeth are reconsidered in the light of the
author’s experience as a son of a former flapper. The sonnets and
comedies are seen through the eyes of a gay man who nevertheless
weeps with joy when all the heterosexual couples are united at the
end. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is interpreted through the
author’s joyous experience of performing the role of Bottom and
finding his aesthetic faith in the pantheon of antiquity. And the
exquisitely poetical history play Richard II intersects with, of
all things, Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Full of engrossing stories, from
family secrets to the world of the theater, and written with humor
and genuine excitement about literary experiences worthy of our
attention and our love, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me makes
Shakespeare’s plays come alive in new ways.
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Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
Authors: |
Leonard Barkan
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-9919-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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LSN: |
0-8232-9919-8 |
Barcode: |
9780823299195 |
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