Shakespeare and The Problem Of Meaning

Rabkin, Norman

ISBN 10: 0226701778 / ISBN 13: 9780226701776

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1981

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Rabkin, Norman: SHAKESPEARE AND THE PROBLEM OF MEANING Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press 1981. FIRST EDITION Fine / Fine 162 PP. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on the spine. In th original unclipped dust jacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and square. This piece is in excellent condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shakespeare and The Problem Of Meaning
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226701778
• ISBN 13: 9780226701776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

"Rabkin selects The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as the plays on which to build his argument, and he teaches us a great deal about these plays. . . . To convince the unbelievingthat that the plays do mean, but that the meaning is coterminous with the experience of the plays themselves, Rabkin finds a strategy more subtle than thesis and rational argument, a strategy designed to make us see for ourselves why thematic descriptions are inadequate, see for ourselves tath the plays mean more than and statement about them can ever suggest." â Barbara A. Mowat, Auburn University

"Norman Rabkin's new book is a very different kind of good book. Elegantly spare, sharp, undogmatic. . . . The relationship between the perception of unity and the perception of artistic achievement is a basic conundrum, and it is one that Mr. Rabkin has courageously placed at the center of his discussion." â G. K. Hunter, Sewanee Review

"Rabkin's book is brilliant, taut, concise, beautifully argued, and sensitively responsive to the individuality of particular Shakespeare plays." â Anne Barton, New York Review of Books

About the Author

Norman Rabkin is Professor in the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Shakespeare and the Common Understanding.