The Friendly Shakespeare - Hardcover

Epstein, Norrie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670844470 ISBN 13: 9780670844470

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1993

Synopsis

A readable guide to the works of Shakespeare includes solid, but never too simplistic, information about the Bard's language, life, and loves for those who want to learn about Shakespeare without wading through a morass of academic criticism. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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About the Author

Norrie Epstein has lectured extensively at the University of California, as well as the University of Rochester and Goucher College, covering almost every literary figure including, of course, Charles Dickens. She is the author of The Friendly Shakespeare.

From Library Journal

It is easier to say who is not Epstein's (literature, Univ. of California) intended audience than whom she intends her audience to be. Academics and Bardolators will pass, but would novices of Shakespeare want to read such a book? Still, novices who chance upon this work will find much to amuse: notes on theater and staging, authorship, characters, and actors; a glossary of Elizabethan sexual slang; a chapter entitled "Why Is Shakespeare Boring?"; observations (not really synopses or critiques) on many of the plays and poems; some interviews, including one with noted scholar Jan Kott and outspoken Oxfordian Charlton Ogburn; and even a page on Peter Brook's notorious Titus Andronicus of 1955. Enthusiastically dished up, this is more a book to be dipped into than read, but it will provide fun for those to whom it will appeal and maybe tote up some cultural literacy points for them as well. Primarily for public libraries.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670844470
• ISBN 13: 9780670844470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550