Reading What's There - Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth (Hardcover)

The twelve essays were written not simply to honor Stephen Booth, but to further the study of Shakespeare. Booth has, for over forty years, proposed a distinct understanding of how Shakespeare s plays and poems work upon us and a unique and rigorous way of reading them. The essays here reflect his insights and method and are meant both to recognize his monumental achievements as a critic and to suggest the enduring value of his work to Shakespeare scholarship. The first essay explains the method and the advantages of Booth s approach to Shakespeare. The next two on Romeo and Juliet and The Rape of Lucrece demonstrate Booth s way of reading Shakespeare. The next four develop Booth s contention that Shakespeare often sets audiences to watch or, rather, to try to watch a play other than the one he shows them. The next two essays look at textual problems from Booth s perspective and explore the challenges editors face in their attempts to establish authentic texts for modern readers. The last three essays focus on teaching and include a description of Stephen Booth s teaching practices and his own renown explanation, through a commentary on Philip D. Eastman s Go, Dog. Go , of the way poetry works upon its readers and the reasons they value it highly. The book concludes with a bibliography of Stephen Booth s work."

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	September 2014
Editors:	Michael J. Collins
Contributors:	Thomas L. Berger • Ralph Alan Cohen • Laurie Ellinghausen • Michael Ellis-Tolaydo • Brett Gamboa • Michael Goldman • Jay L. Halio • James E. Hirsh • Margaret Maurer
Dimensions:	237 x 161 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-1-61149-507-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	1-61149-507-5
Barcode:	9781611495072

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