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How Shakespeare Changed Everything Paperback - 2012
by Marche, Stephen
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Details
- 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.