The Genius of Shakespeare

Bate (Jonathan); Introduction By Simon Callow

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ISBN 10: 1509822542 ISBN 13: 9781509822546

Published by Picador Classic, London, 2016

Language: English

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Title: The Genius of Shakespeare
Publisher: Picador Classic, London
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1509822542
ISBN 13: 9781509822546
Binding: Paperback
Edition: First Edition Thus.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Published
Book Type: Shakespeare

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With an introduction by Simon Callow

Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius.

Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And what makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? Exploring Shakespeare''s life, including questions of authorship and autobiography, and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries, this extraordinary book asks how Shakespeare has come to be such a powerful symbol of genius.

Written with lively passion and wit, The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life - and afterlife - of our greatest poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world''s leading Shakespearean scholars, has shown how the legend of Shakespeare''s genius was created and sustained, and how the man himself became a truly global phenomenon.

''The best modern book on Shakespeare'' Sir Peter Hall

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Jonathan Bate is King Alfred the Great Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Shakespeare and Ovid (OUP, 1993), Shakespearean Constitutions (OUP, 1989), and Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (OUP, 1986). Among his edited volumes are Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare), Romantic Ecology, and The Romantics on Shakespeare.

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