Shakespeare is everywhere
Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates
our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage
heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the
twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever
little book, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche uncovers the hidden
influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these
fascinating tidbits: Shakespeare coined more than 1,700 words,
including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn. Paul Robeson's 1943
performance as Othello on Broadway was a seminal moment in black
history. Tolstoy wrote an entire book about Shakespeare's failures
as a writer. In 1936, the Nazi Party tried to claim Shakespeare as
a Germanic writer. Without Shakespeare, the book titles Infinite
Jest, The Sound and the Fury, and Brave New World wouldn't exist.
The name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice. Freud's
idea of a healthy sex life came directly from the Bard.
Stephen Marche has cherry-picked the sweetest and most savory
historical footnotes from Shakespeare's work and life to create
this unique celebration of the greatest writer of all time.
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