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Shakespeare and Modern Culture

by Garber, Marjorie

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0307377679
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9780307377678
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; Hardcover. Overall, a clean and tight copy. Pantheon, 2008. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

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From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All ("the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer"--Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" our own and even as "naturally" true--ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Yet many of these ideas, timely as ever, have been reimagined--are indeed often now first encountered--not only in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news but also in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law.Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and twentieth century and contemporary culture--from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. In The Merchant of Venice, she looks at the question of intention; in Hamlet, the matter of character; in King Lear, the dream of sublimity; in Othello, the persistence of difference; and in Macbeth, the necessity of interpretation. She discusses the conundrum of man in The Tempest; the quest for exemplarity in Henry V; the problem of fact in Richard III; the estrangement of self in Coriolanus; and the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet.Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a tour de force reimagining of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of protean "Shakespeare."From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Author
Garber, Marjorie
Format/Binding
Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0307377679
ISBN 13
9780307377678
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
2008-12-09

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