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How Shakespeare Changed Everything
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How Shakespeare Changed Everything Paperback - 2012

by Marche, Stephen

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Harper Perennial, 2012-08-07. Paperback. New.
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  • Title How Shakespeare Changed Everything
  • Author Marche, Stephen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York
  • Date 2012-08-07
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0061965545_new
  • ISBN 9780061965548 / 0061965545
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.7 in (18.03 x 12.45 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William - Influence, HISTORY / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010052856
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

From the rear cover

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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