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Shakespeare's Magnanimity

Howard Jacobson Wilbur Sanders Wilbur Sanders

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English
Vintage Classics
20 June 2016
Lively, free-ranging and entertaining essays on four tragic heroes that bring something fresh and unfamiliar to the field of Shakespearean studies - co-authored by Wilbur Sanders and the Man Booker prizewinning novelist Howard Jacobson

The field of Shakespearean studies is cluttered with the fossils of past discussion, and somehow we have to pick our way around them. In the opening scene to this unusual book, these obstructive entities are brought to life and engage in lively argument. Four essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus follow, all of which freshen the air- unfamiliar, unspecialised, free-ranging and openly argumentative, but tied at all points to the original text. Shakespeare wrote out of, and about, a common humanity, and it is with humanity, common and uncommon, that we must read or watch him. This book is accordingly addressed to the academic or the new student.
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Imprint:   Vintage Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   139g
ISBN:   9781784870508
ISBN 10:   1784870501
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Howard Jacobson (Author) Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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