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Book SynopsisThis book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments.
Trade ReviewThis book will be found useful by students of Shakespeare who refuse to forego the pleasures of the...texture of the plays in pursuit of the bigger picture; by teachers of Shakespeare interested in strategies for leading their students beyond ideoligical cristicism to an aesthetic experience of the words themselves and by critics who are willing to witness a rebuttal of many latter-twentieth century critical trends that is carried out on a practical, rather than a theoretical, level. ...witty, reminiscent of A. P. Rossiter's prose, the scope daring but well defined, and the writing necessarily dense. -- Louis Burdhardt, University of Colorado at Boulder.
This book will be found useful by students of Shakespeare who refuse to forego the "pleasures of the...texture" of the plays in pursuit of the bigger picture; by teachers of Shakespeare interested in strategies for leading their students beyond ideoligical cristicism to an aesthetic experience of the words themselves and by critics who are willing to witness a rebuttal of many latter-twentieth century critical trends that is carried out on a practical, rather than a theoretical, level. ...witty, reminiscent of A. P. Rossiter's prose, the scope daring but well defined, and the writing necessarily dense. -- Louis Burdhardt, University of Colorado at Boulder.
