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Shakespeare After All

By Marjorie Garber

By Marjorie Garber

By Marjorie Garber

By Marjorie Garber

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    About Shakespeare After All

    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.

    Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.

    About Shakespeare After All

    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.

    Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.

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    About Marjorie Garber

    Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the Program in Dramatic Arts. She has served as director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, chair… More about Marjorie Garber

    About Marjorie Garber

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by Anchor
    Sep 20, 2005 | 1008 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385722148

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 19, 2008 | 1008 Pages | ISBN 9780307490810

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    Praise

    “The indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer. . . . Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” –Newsweek

    “The best one-volume critical guide to the plays. . . . Stimulating and informative.” –San Jose Mercury News

    “An enraptured ceremony of adoration. . . . Ambitious and thorough. . . . This is a useful book [and] a source of elucidation.” –Newsday

    “[Garber’s] introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading.” –The New Yorker

    Awards

    Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Book Award WINNER 2005

    Table Of Contents

    A Note on the Text
    Introduction
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    The Taming of the Shrew
    Titus Andronicus
    Henry VI Part 1
    Henry VI Part 2
    Henry VI Part 3
    Richard III
    The Comedy of Errors
    Love’s Labour’s Lost
    Romeo and Juliet
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    Richard II
    King John
    The Merchant of Venice
    Henry IV Part 1
    Henry IV Part 2
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Henry V
    Julius Caesar
    As You Like It
    Hamlet
    Twelfth Night
    Troilus and Cressida
    Measure for Measure
    Othello
    All’s Well That Ends Well
    Timon of Athens
    King Lear
    Macbeth
    Antony and Cleopatra
    Pericles
    Coriolanus
    Cymbeline
    The Winter’s Tale
    The Tempest
    Henry VIII (All Is True)
    The Two Noble Kinsmen
    Notes
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    Acknowledgments
    General Index
    Character Index

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