Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times.

"[A] crowning achievement. . . . The rewards of reading [Pope] are immense—and so are the rewards of reading about him in this excellent biography." —John Gross, New York Times

"Mack brings us both Pope and the age in a biography as entertaining as it is masterly." —Publishers Weekly

"Mack's long-awaited life fulfills the highest expectations. . . . Written with elegance and clarity. . . . [A] superb work." —Library Journal

"A first-rate biography. . . . Doubles as a masterly work of literary and cultural history. . . . Beautifully written." —New Statesman

"Brings to life in richly imagined historical context the controversial figure of Alexander Pope, the most important poet of his time. . . . Brilliant analysis." —Patricia Meyer Spacks, Chicago Tribune

"Long-awaited. . . . Mr. Mack has now laid before us in impressive and authoritative fashion the whole life of Pope, an invaluable gift of scholarship and judgment. . . . Reads like a good Russian novel." —John M. Aden, Sewanne Review

Everybodys Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven playsHamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatraand demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal. Maynard Mack is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Among his publications are King Lear in Our Time, Rescuing Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope: A Life.