false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230269615m/5965981.jpg 5965981 1 From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of <i>Shakespeare After All</i> (“the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer”–<i>Newsweek</i>): a magisterial new study whose premise is “that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.”<br><b><br></b>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.<br><br>Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and twentieth century and contemporary culture–from James Joyce’s <i>Ulysses</i> to George W. Bush’s reading list. In <i>The Merchant of Venice,</i> she looks at the question of intention; in <i>Hamlet</i>, the matter of character; in <i>King Lear,</i> the dream of sublimity; in <i>Othello,</i> the persistence of difference; and in <i>Macbeth, </i>the necessity of interpretation. She discusses the conundrum of man in <i>The Tempest</i>; the quest for exemplarity in <i>Henry V</i>; the problem of fact in <i>Richard III</i>; the estrangement of self in <i>Coriolanus</i>; and the untimeliness of youth in <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>.<br><br>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.” 6138890 9 12 2008 Shakespeare and Modern Culture total:30|5:1|4:0|3:0|2:0|1:0| 30 107 79 10 0 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 20:39:01 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 20:23:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 27 20:02:17 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:58:31 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 20:02:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 09:21:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 08:56:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:39:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:42:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 5 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 12:25:32 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 15:04:45 -0700 2009 1 Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a related series of essays focusing on ten of the Bard's plays. Garber argues "Shakespeare was...a writer and thinker who changed the fundamental was in which people write, read, and think." (p. 270) A relatively uncontroversial position, at least in Anglo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 21:22:45 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 02:34:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 04 11:40:41 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 11:43:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 16:11:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 12:32:27 -0700 2009 Shakespeare and Modern Culture.

I student gave me this book, and when I couldn't decide which book to read next, Maggie helped me out by selecting this one.

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