The Genius of ShakespeareOxford University Press, 2008 - 402 pages This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's canonization and near-deification, examining not only the uniqueness of his status among English-speaking readers but also his effect on literary cultures across the globe. Ambitious, wide-ranging, and historically rich, this book shapes a provocative inquiry into the nature of genius as it ponders the legacy of a talent unequalled in English letters. A bold and meticulous work of scholarship, The Genius of Shakespeare is also lively and accessibly written and will appeal to any reader who has marveled at the Bard and the enduring power of his work. This tenth anniversary edition has a new twenty-page afterword that addresses the renewed interest in Shakespeare and recent film adaptations of his most celebrated works. |
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Page 37
... Elizabethans , writing , as often as not , for someone with whom they had dined a few days ago . For the Romantic , with ... Elizabethan tried to produce a poem to suit a particular occasion and a known taste . ' Scorn not the sonnet ...
... Elizabethans , writing , as often as not , for someone with whom they had dined a few days ago . For the Romantic , with ... Elizabethan tried to produce a poem to suit a particular occasion and a known taste . ' Scorn not the sonnet ...
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... Elizabethan , any dead writer , you , me , Elvis Presley , or Malcolm X. Oxfordians , cognisant of the Baconians ' demise , have on the whole eschewed cryptograms . Their favoured code is the hidden personal allusion . Typically , the ...
... Elizabethan , any dead writer , you , me , Elvis Presley , or Malcolm X. Oxfordians , cognisant of the Baconians ' demise , have on the whole eschewed cryptograms . Their favoured code is the hidden personal allusion . Typically , the ...
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... Elizabethan names are nicely balanced : Cromwell and Milton stand for republicanism and radical religion , whereas Chatham and Johnson evoke Whig oligarchy and Tory Anglicanism . But there is no ambivalence in the portrayal of the ...
... Elizabethan names are nicely balanced : Cromwell and Milton stand for republicanism and radical religion , whereas Chatham and Johnson evoke Whig oligarchy and Tory Anglicanism . But there is no ambivalence in the portrayal of the ...
Contents
Shakespeares Autobiographical Poems? | 34 |
Shakespeares Peculiarity | 133 |
THE SHAKESPEARE EFFECT | 155 |
Copyright | |
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