The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia
Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group  For the men and
women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence
and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for
publication—the novels, biographies, economic and political
writings, stage designs and reviews—but also their diaries and
correspondence, their gossip and small talk turned regularly on
Shakespeare. They read his plays for pleasure in the evenings, and
on sunny summer afternoons in the country. They went to the
theater, discussed performances, and speculated about
Shakespeare’s mind. As poet, as dramatist, as model and icon, as
elusive “life,” Shakespeare haunted their imaginations and made
his way, through phrase, allusion, and oblique reference, into
their own lives and art. Â This is a book about Shakespeare
in Bloomsbury—about the role Shakespeare played in the lives of a
charismatic and influential cast, including Virginia and Leonard
Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Lytton
Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova Keynes, Desmond
and Molly MacCarthy, and James and Alix Strachey. All are brought
to sparkling life in Marjorie Garber’s intimate account of how
Shakespeare provided them with a common language, a set of
reference points, and a model for what they did not hesitate to
call genius. Among these brilliant friends, Garber shows,
Shakespeare was in effect another, if less fully acknowledged,
member of the Bloomsbury Group.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Marjorie Garber
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
400 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-26756-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-300-26756-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780300267563 |
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