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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
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- 9780375503399
- Book Title
- Shakespeare Wars : Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Theater / General, Shakespeare, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Item Weight
- 35 oz
- Number of Pages
- 624 Pages
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"[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time." David Remnick InThe Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. Rather than raking over worn-out fragments of biography, Rosenbaum focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeare's enchantment and illuminationthe astonishing language itself. How best to unlock the secrets of its spell? With quicksilver wit and provocative insight, Rosenbaum takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experiencedeeper into the mind of Shakespeare. Was Shakespeare the one-draft wonder ofShakespeare in Love? Or was he ratheras an embattled faction of textual scholars now arguesa different kind of writer entirely: a conscientious reviser of his greatest plays? Must we then revise our way of reading, staging, and interpreting such works asHamletandKing Lear? Rosenbaum pursues key partisans in these debates from the high tables of Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a strip mall in the Deep South. He makes ostensibly arcane textual scholarship intensely seductiveand sometimes even explicitly sexual. At an academic "Pleasure Seminar" in Bermuda, for instance, he examines one scholar's quest to find an orgasm in Romeo and Juliet. Rosenbaum shows us great directors as Shakespearean scholars in their own right: We hear Peter Brookperhaps the most influential Shakespearean director of the past centurydisclose his quest for a "secret play" hidden within the Bard's comedies and dramas. We listen to Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as he launches into an impassioned, table-pounding fury while discussing how the means of unleashing the full intensity of Shakespeare's language has been lostand how to restore it. Rosenbaum's hilarious inside account of "the Great Shakespeare 'Funeral Elegy' Fiasco," a man-versus-computer clash, illustrates the iconic struggle to define what is and isn't "Shakespearean." And he demonstrates the way Shakespearean scholars such as Harold Bloom can become great Shakespearean characters in their own right. The Shakespeare Warsoffers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeare's work at its deepest levels. Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time.
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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375503390
ISBN-13
9780375503399
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52190313
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shakespeare Wars : Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Theater / General, Shakespeare, Literary
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
35 oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr2970.R67 2006
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
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2006-042541
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