This Is Shakespeare

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This Is Shakespeare

An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality.

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. Now, Emma Smith--an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer--takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex, and the Shakespeare she reveals in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean.
Country USA
Author Emma Smith
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781524748555
Label Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
NumberOfPages 368
PublicationDate 2020-04-21
Publisher Pantheon
ReleaseDate 2020-04-21
Studio Pantheon

Country	USA
Author	Emma Smith
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781524748555
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfPages	368
PublicationDate	2020-04-21
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2020-04-21
Studio	Pantheon

This Is Shakespeare

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