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The real devil in America is America itself, the one who stole the soul that he, through open eyes and fearless prose, snatches back.  \u003cb\u003eThis is searing, revelatory, filled with utter heartbreak, and unstoppable joy.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Marlon James, author of Black Leopard Red Wolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rapturous exploration of black genius.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhether heralding unsung entertainers or re-examining legends, Hanif Abdurraqib weaves together gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within black performance. I read this book breathlessly.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Brit Bennett * author of The Vanishing Half *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo read Hanif Abdurraqib is to be embraced in the middle of chaos\u003c\/b\u003e. In his latest book, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil In America: In Praise of Black Performance\u003c\/i\u003e, he does what many great writers do, which is to \u003cb\u003eilluminate and join the dots between connections readers may once have failed to see\u003c\/b\u003e. * Huck *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib is one of the most brilliant writers I've ever read. \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil In America \u003c\/i\u003eneeds to be on every bedside table, every high school and college desktop - and basically, in this age of a revolution, this is that ONE book that everyone needs to read. Pure genius. I'm not even trying to get at even SOME of the brilliance Hanif gets to with this book-there is just too much. From Black Exceptionalism to Josephine Baker to Old Heads-he brings it and clarifies it, then shapes it into every bit of medicine we need right now\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jacqueline Woodson * author of Red at the Bone *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoignant, powerful, candid, written with sincerity and emotion ... An important book\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important cultural critic in America right now? This writer gets my vote. Abdurraqib has delivered a winner.\u003c\/b\u003e * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eHanif Abdurraqib has a way of taking slices of our cultural landscape, examining them, and transforming them into observations and analyses that leave me underlining the entire page. In \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil In America\u003c\/i\u003e, Abdurraqib \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly braids together history, criticism, and prose so stunning that it makes you want to read every word out loud just so you can hear its music. \u003c\/b\u003eEverything Abdurraqib writes is a must-read, but this is \u003cb\u003ehis best yet\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eIt is one of the most dynamic books I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Clint Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlending pop-culture essays, memoir, and poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America \u003c\/i\u003edelves into the manyiterations of Black artistic expression through an often deeply personal lens\u003c\/b\u003e ...\u003cb\u003eStartling, layered, and timely, this is an essential, illuminating collection\u003c\/b\u003e * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eA thoughtful memoir rolled into a set of joined essays on life, death, and the Black experience in America... Social criticism, pop culture, and autobiography come together neatly in these pages, and \u003cb\u003eevery sentence is sharp, provocative, and self-aware ... A winner.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kirkus Reviews (*starred review*)\u003cbr\u003eA Little Devil in America is so so heavy in some places that I have to take breaks. It just hurts to read some of these truths, woven in such beautiful writing. -- Yomi Sode\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003estaggeringly intimate meditation\u003c\/b\u003e, Abdurraqib shines a light on how Black artists have shaped-and been shaped by-American culture. His prose is reliably razor-sharp. Filled with nuance and lyricism, Abdurraqib's \u003cb\u003eluminous \u003c\/b\u003esurvey is \u003cb\u003estunning\u003c\/b\u003e. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib pens respectful, heartwarming essays that reflect on giants in music, television, cinema, and even magic\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003ehis stories will inspire and provoke thoughtful meditations on how Black lives matter in all areas of life and art.\u003c\/b\u003e * Library Journal (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eAbdurraqib uses his \u003cb\u003einimitable blend of incisive, piercing criticism and shimmering stream-of-consciousness \u003c\/b\u003eto explore everything from the problem with praising Black women for being \"vessels\" who have \"saved America\" with their votes (he points out: \"It occurred to me that Black women were simply attempting to save themselves\") to Dave Chappelle's appeal to white audiences to the death of his mother. \u003cb\u003eMoving, provocative, and infused with a singular lyricism, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e is an exultant blend of memoir and criticism, a must-read for anyone looking to better understand this country and its people.\u003c\/b\u003e * Refinery29 *\u003cbr\u003eIt's \u003cb\u003ean absolutely brilliant book\u003c\/b\u003e from a critic who's become \u003cb\u003eone of the country's most essential writers\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eTo call Abdurraqib anything less than one of the best writers working in America, and to call this book anything less than a masterpiece, would be doing him, and literature as a whole, a disservice\u003c\/b\u003e -- Michael Shaub * Minneapolis Star Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eThese 'notes in praise of Black performance' \u003cb\u003eencompass dance, music, film, and standup, along with everyday affectations and embodiments of masculinity, fear, intimacy, and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e Subjects include Josephine Baker, Michael Jackson, blackface, \"Soul Train,\" and brotherhood. ...\u003cb\u003eCombines meditations on personal experiences\u003c\/b\u003e-losing his mother, navigating the Midwestern punk scene-\u003cb\u003ewith affectionate studies of cultural\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emoments and figures, beloved and under-sung alike.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib views performance as an expression of life and a means of survival\u003c\/b\u003e * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e[Abdurraqib] \u003cb\u003ehas brought to pop criticism and cultural history not just a poet's lyricism and imagery but also a scholar's rigor, a novelist's sense of character and place, and a punk-rocker's impulse to dislodge conventional wisdom from its moorings until something shakes loose and is exposed to audiences too lethargic to think or even react differently\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gene Seymour * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book that brims with wonder and introspection \u003c\/b\u003ewhile also honoring the significance and contributions of so many of the lives within it. Abdurraqib's passions are fully on display, and his widespread love is infectious in the best way possible, resulting in \u003cb\u003ea masterwork that will not only move readers but will also send them off into their own personal rabbit holes of joy and wonder. This is, perhaps, the greatest gift a writer can give to his readers,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Little Devil in America \u003c\/i\u003edelivers it in spades \u003c\/b\u003e -- Daniel Modlin * The Daily Beast *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003econtemplative and scholarly...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eit is a joy to watch [Hanif's] mind work\u003c\/b\u003e. 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Abdurraqib's book is a challenge not to accept the usual explanations for the performances we witness.\u003c\/b\u003e * BookPage *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib's great strength is his ability to present broad, canny observations through the lens of his personal experience, and his intimate exploration of what these specific moments meant to him as a Black Muslim coming of age in the US is what lingers long after you've finished the book\u003c\/b\u003e * Buzzfeed *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib has written a profound reflection on how Black performance is woven into the fabric of American culture\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a joyous ode to Black performance throughout history.\u003c\/b\u003e * PureWow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThroughout, Abdurraqib writes with urgency as he highlights what these performances mean, how they connect to his own feelings on grief, love and life, \u003cbr\u003e and where they fit into American history\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e * TIME Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eFrom Josephine Baker to Soul Train to 'Sixteen Ways of Looking at Blackface,' \u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib takes us on a wild ride through the history of Black performances, \u003c\/b\u003eartists who crushed boundaries and carved out spaces for vigorous forms of African American expression. \u003cb\u003eHis is an intimate, conspiratorial voice, musically inflected, blending scholarship with anecdote\u003c\/b\u003e, a 'waltz in a circular chamber of your homies and not-homies, shouting chants of excitement.' * Oprah Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib breathes new life into performers of significance in his life, both legendary and unsung\u003c\/b\u003e * A.V. 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Here he charges himself with quite an ambitious task, \u003cb\u003epinning down and contextualizing the historic scale of such a globally significant cultural output\u003c\/b\u003e, and it is one that would appear to call for an equally ambitious scope... \u003cb\u003eContemplations of legendary voices, sleights of hand, and charismatic choreographies are in dialogue with his own stories of grief, love, faith, and the search for freedom within the confinements of borders and a body...Abdurraqib expands the conception of \"performance\" to include the whole realm of behavior and culture\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003ePlayfulness, seduction, artistry, and reinvention: Abdurraqib wants us to know that these devilish gestures have their place\u003c\/b\u003e, too, among the saints that line the corridors in this tiresome, captivating, and essential struggle * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America,\u003c\/i\u003e Abdurraqib walks readers through Black archives of dance, film, social struggle, and song as though these \"intimate histories\" of performance (as Saidiya Hartman calls them) could free us from anything that misses the beat. For this collection of essays, \u003cb\u003ehe does the work of a DJ: he digs through the crates, selects the most appropriately unexpected songs\/topics\/subjects, builds a collage between cuts and scratches, and presents his set.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHis books are soundscapes in print, and I was somehow listening to each sentence as if it were a breakbeat of personal narrative and socio-historical commentary...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation\u003c\/b\u003e * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAbdurraqib, known for his playful, intelligent sense of humor on Twitter, \u003cb\u003ehighlights amazing performances that shed light on societal constructions and moments of sheer joy\u003c\/b\u003e his book about Black culture in America. \u003cb\u003eWriting about joy is challenging; falling back on cliche is a constant temptation that Abdurraqib avoids in this insightful tome\u003c\/b\u003e * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThat\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003esense of limitlessness wraps itself around every essay \u003c\/b\u003ein Abdurraqib's newest book, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, he writes about Black performance in America-from Great Depression-era dance marathons to the enduring cool of Don Cornelius to the art of Mike Tyson entering a boxing ring-\u003cb\u003ewith both great reverence and rigorous analysis. The book, in the way Abdurraqib's work so often does, erects monuments to our should-be legends and our unignorable icons alike, and paints an expansive, deeply felt portrait of the history of Black artistry\u003c\/b\u003e -- Leah Johnson * Electric Literature *\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003edeft consideration\u003c\/b\u003e of seemingly irreconcilable values, \u003cb\u003ebetween the personal and private dimensions of performance,\u003c\/b\u003e can be found throughout the essays in A Little Devil in America...\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib sees performance as a site of radical questioning, experimentation, and dream-making. This book is not a work of theory. 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Cary Grant was Hollywood''s most debonair film star--the embodiment of worldly sophistication. Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize. The first biography to be based on Grant''s own personal papers, this book takes us on a fascinating journey from the actor''s difficult childhood through years of struggle in music halls and vaudeville, a hit-and-miss career in Broadway musicals, and three decades of film stardom during Hollywood''s golden age. Leaving no stone unturned, Cary Grant delves into all aspects of Grant''s life, from the bitter realities of his impoverished childhood to his trailblazing role in Hollywood as a film star who defied the studio system and took control of his own career. 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It will become a definitive account of Grant, providing a judiciously balanced and peceptive evaluation of his intervowen personal and professional life, elucidated in pellucid prose whose elegance mirrors its subject. * Andrew Spicer, Archives *\u003cbr\u003eGlancy's account is full, readable and scholarly and it is confidently predicted that this particular quarry is now closed. * Josh Stevens, Bristol \u0026amp; Gloucestershire Archaeological Society *\u003cbr\u003eOffering glimpses of Grant both inside and outside of studio walls, Glancy succeeds in culling together a cohesive book based upon Grant's personal papers ...if the reader is not familiar with the breath of Grant's filmography, Glancy's book steps in as a guide through Grant's many works. * Annette Bochenek, Hometowns to Hollywood *\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive biography: forensic, myth-busting, and psychologically fine-tuned. 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This is certainly one of the best books about the golden era of Hollywood that I have ever read, and I recommend it to anyone interested in films. * Mel Cooper, Plays to See  *\u003cbr\u003eBy contrast with some of his predecessors, Glancy does a superb job of shining light on as much of Grant's life as can be understood without bogging down in unnecessary detail. * Dave Luhrssen, Shepherd Express *\u003cbr\u003eA solid biography * David Pitt, Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eA thorough and thoughtful biography... An excellent portrait that emphasizes the man more than the movie star. * Peter Thornell, Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eMark Glancy has given the beloved star a deservedly respectful treatment. He offers a detailed and interesting biography which does not shy away from the controversies in Grant's life. 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The story begins in the early twentieth century, when gay characters were virtually banned from productions. The 1920s saw a flurry of plays closed on moral grounds as well as the Wales Padlock Act, which forbade representation of sex degeneracy. While authorities made consistent attempts to shutter the movement, the public remained curious, and after a few decades of war making, a truce broke out when The Boys In the Band became a national smash hit. From this point on, gay theatre proved simply too popular to abolish. 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For example, author Doug Reside shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s - when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium. And Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn''t already had the opportunity to learn the score by listening to free digital streams of the original cast recording.T\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Fixing the Musical, Doug Reside brilliantly excavates what's been hiding in plain sight: how audiences, artists, and academics encounter, engage with, and enjoy musical theatre outside of the performance itself. This indispensable book tells the fascinating and surprising histories of musical theatre's various 'fixed' forms, from published librettos to cast albums, films, bootleg recordings, licensing, and more. Impeccable archival research and a lively, accessible voice make Fixing the Musical necessary and delightful. * Stacy Wolf, Author of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America *\u003cbr\u003eDoug Reside has taken a deep dive into a hitherto unexamined side of musical theater: technology. He goes from how scripts and musical scores were first printed, up to the creation of ancillary materials licensing houses offer to help mount productions. Reside makes us question many of our assumptions while surprising us with a lot of new information. * Ted Chapin, Former President, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction   1. 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Tune took the musical forward by looking backward, bringing satiric energy and contemporary style to a trove of show business antecedents--from clog dancing to showgirl formations, from precision kick lines to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-style ballroom glides. He did the same with his concert and cabaret performances, drawing on classics from the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter and performing them not as nostalgia but as vital, immediate statements of personal philosophy. Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full scale book about the career of this prodigious artist. 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In this book, musical theater scholar Ryan Bunch draws on his personal experience as an Oz fan to explore how a story that has been hailed as the American fairy tale serves as a guide for thinking about the art form of the American musical and how both reveal American identity to be a utopian performance.Show by show, Bunch highlights the forms and conventions of each musical work as practiced in its time and context-such as the turn-of-the-century extravaganza, the classical Hollywood film musical, the Black Broadway musical of the 1970s, and the twenty-first-century mega-musical. 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It is a book to cherish, to laugh with and to wonder at. * Sandra Callard, On: Yorkshire Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAimed at a broad readership, the book offers short biographies of \"great Shakespeare actors\" from Shakespeare's time to our own ... the book will very likely prove a helpful and entertaining resource for many. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *\u003cbr\u003eGreat Shakespeare Actors is most impressive when quarrying the more remote past, and, although it is suitable for dipping into, reading it straight through conveys a sense of how acting styles and actors' careers have changed. * Henry Hitchings, Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e[A] fascinating book. * Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eStanley Wells has his work cut out in Great Shakespeare Actors as he assesses around forty performers over the past four centuries, from Richard Burbage to Simon Russell Beale, offering brisk career summaries with a dash of scholarship and plenty of anecdote ... 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With tremendous flashes of insight, Wells illuminates not just the staging and the modes of acting that predominated over the centuries, but also the true nature of Shakespeare as a provider of play scripts for actors and audiences. Superbly researched, this is a book that I shall revisit time and time again. * Stephen Fry *\u003cbr\u003eThis astonishing book fills a vital gap on the shelves. Stanley Wells combines the detailed knowledge of a Shakespeare scholar with the sharp eye of a dramatic critic in a book that makes great performances come resonantly alive. If future generations want to know what Olivier or Dench really were like in Shakespeare, it is to this book that they will turn. * Michael Billington *\u003cbr\u003eIn his own day, and ever since, Shakespeare's plays have been staged by some of the worlds most extraordinary actors. Stanley Wells, who knows these plays and their fascinating histories as well as anyone, offers here incisive portraits of exceptional actors who have performed Shakespeare over the past 400 years, from Burbage and Kemp up through Olivier, Dench, McKellen, and Beale. It's a thrilling and captivating account. * James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare *\u003cbr\u003eStanley Wells's Great Shakespeare Actors is a companionable tour through the encyclopaedic knowledge of our greatest Shakespeare scholar, full of anecdote, erudition, and intimate firsthand observation. It's a tribute to a life of devotion to the theatre, on the page and on stage, informed by a living sense of what actors do, and who they are, and how they work. 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This collection of his finest essays--ranging widely from stagecraft to theatre criticism, and from textual studies to explorations of individual works--confirms why he continues to serve as such an incisive and brilliant guide to the plays and poems. * James Shapiro, author of 1599 and 1606 *\u003cbr\u003eStanley Wells is the most Shakespearian of Shakespearians. He epitomizes what makes the humanities humane. Great learning lightly worn; hard work disguised as play. A love of beauty and of truth. A deep commitment to the difficult work of understanding the human past. Curiosity, empathy, generosity, modesty. The clarity and passion of all great teachers. A twinkle in the eye, and in the prose. * Gary Taylor, Apprentice; Collaborator; Beneficiary *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Holland: Introduction I. Shakespearian Influences 1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance 2: Tales from Shakespeare II. 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It takes us  into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating  the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg  and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the  cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and  technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward  questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in  working out what it might mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis\u003c\/i\u003e is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop\u003c\/b\u003e. This is a model of unpretentious, deeply researched, profoundly approachable criticism. It's a book to give to anyone who loves Shakespeare, but particularly to those who think they don't ... What \u003ci\u003eThis Is Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003egives the reader most of all, though, is a licence to enjoy the plays without the cultural and historical baggage they so often carry -- Alex Preston * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe question that hangs over every new book on Shakespeare is, \"Why read this one?\" The short answer is, because it is very good indeed.\u003c\/b\u003e There is no shortage of eminent Shakespeare scholars, and in her role as professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford, Smith certainly ranks among them; but more importantly for a book like this, she is perhaps\u003cb\u003e the pre-eminent Shakespeare communicator working today \u003c\/b\u003e... \u003ci\u003eThis is Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003ecuts through the accumulated crust of \"schoolroom platitudes\", cant and literary piety in order to dust Shakespeare off and see him as he is, was, and might be -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI like this book very much.\u003c\/b\u003e It explains accessibly, with learning lightly worn, why Shakespeare retains such a hold in our culture. \u003cb\u003eSmith has done an exemplary job\u003c\/b\u003e of restoring the greatest of English writers to his own time, and explaining why he then speaks to ours ... \u003cb\u003eAn invigorating examination\u003c\/b\u003e of the pre-eminence of the most revered figure of English letters -- Oliver Kamm * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuirky, brilliant \u003c\/b\u003e... what's most bracing about Smith's book is the way she sees the plays as almost organic: \u003cb\u003enot only contradictory but alive\u003c\/b\u003e -- Daniel Swift * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003ewears its learning very lightly, although there are clear signs of that learning in every chapter ... \u003cb\u003eSane, sensible and suitably woke ... original and provocative analysis\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lisa Hopkins * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, fizzing with jokes ... Smith is celebrating a Shakespeare who talks to the present. She does it all with such a light touch you barely notice how much you're learning ... \u003cb\u003eAnyone who doesn't understand what the fuss is all about should read \u003ci\u003eThis Is Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e -- Colin Burrow * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn outstanding book ... a distillation of intricate conceptual and textual cruces into readable prose ... lively and unexpectedly moving ... curious and passionate ...\u003cb\u003e [It reminds me] why I came to enjoy Shakespeare so much in the first place\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sophie Duncan * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntriguing \u003c\/b\u003e... Smith argues that the defining characteristic of Shakespeare's plays is their 'permissive gappiness'. This must also surely be the first book on Shakespeare to use the slang term 'woke' * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA joy to read\u003c\/b\u003e, full of questions, surprises, and new ideas. Smith brings us remarkable new readings of Shakespeare, and a sense of how his work lives on the stage. \u003cb\u003eA wonderful book\u003c\/b\u003e -- Margaret Drabble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf I were asked to recommend one guide\u003c\/b\u003e for readers keen on discovering what's at stake in Shakespeare's plays, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e would be it.\u003c\/b\u003e  Deeply informed, never dogmatic, and alert to how performance matters, Emma Smith understands that Shakespeare's plays prompt questions rather than provide answers.\u003cb\u003e  Her elegantly written and sharply observed book is richly rewarding.\u003c\/b\u003e -- James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating new perspective\u003c\/b\u003e and an absolute pleasure to read -- Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eImpeccable\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003ci\u003eThis is Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003eis the ideal book of its moment for unlocking the works of that most miraculous, mysterious and be-pedestalled figure in English literature [...] \u003cb\u003eSmith's fresh approaches reveal something crucial about Shakespeare's ongoing relevance\u003c\/b\u003e * The Saturday Paper *\u003cbr\u003eThere's an \u003cb\u003einvigorating\u003c\/b\u003e frankness to Smith's approach [...] She generously leads an accessible and insightful route towards a provocative, complicating reading of Shakespeare's work. * GLOBE Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare pulled from his pedestal and made contemporary...\u003cb\u003ethis book is terrific\u003c\/b\u003e...informative and, more importantly, very enjoyable * This England *\u003cbr\u003eSmith salvages Shakespeare from the status of isolated genius, and reveals him as an active participant in his own time and place. In turn, we the audience become active participants in the remaking of Shakespeare...\u003cb\u003eThis book puts the pleasure back into the plays, and there is no better reason to read about Shakespeare than that\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sarah Ditum * The Lancet *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePacked with sharp observations and illuminating commentary\u003c\/b\u003e on the works and their afterlives...acute on the plays' modern resonances and how today's theatre troupes handle Will's less woke moments, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e. They won't cancel Shakey yet! * The Times Books of the Year 2019 *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant and accessible tour of Shakespeare's plays that is also a radical manifesto for how to read and watch his work. 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