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Shakespeare After All
Binding: Paperback
Author: Marjorie Garber
Release Date: 2005-09-20
Manufacturer: Anchor
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 17
List Price: $20.00
Our Price: $13.60
Sales Rank: 61587
Product Description
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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Product Review Summary: Superior Shakespeare Scholarship Having read Garber's delightful and insightful "Shakespeare After All" after reading a little over half of Bloom's bloated and awful "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" (all I could stomach of that volume), I am pleased to no end that I found Garber's jewel of a book. She sets out to do - and accomplishes admirably - what I had (perhaps falsely) assumed was the task Bloom had set himself: to discuss and compare the plays in the canon, giving brief plot summaries, insights and analysis. For Bloom, the play "Hamlet" is all, and the character Falstaff is all. He very unevenly reviewed the plays, always commenting on each with too much about "Hamlet" and Falstaff. My favorite play ("A Midsummer Night's Dream," I am not too shy to say) merited only a few inadequate pages in Bloom. Garber, instead, has created a marvelous work that advances the cause of twenty-first Shakespeare scholarship while delighting the casual or studious reader. Many thanks to Professor Garber for providing what will be for decades to come one of the most important works on the Bard of Avon and his life's work!
Product Review Summary: A very good and readable survey of Shakespeare's work While not as filled with 100 dollar words as Harold Bloom's book, this is a very insightful survey of Shakespeare's works and makes a great replacement for an ivy league undergraduate course on Shakespeare.
Product Review Summary: Worthwhile, but Goddard will engage you more. Garber's essays can be a little unfocused, and she may abruptly change topic and theme from time to time, but this is the value of her work. She'll offer a queer or post-colonial critical comment, perform a close reading of the text to illustrate the how the rhetorical style is linked to the plot structure, and then perhaps add something of a historicist reading of a scene. Each essay can stand alone-- there is no thematic unity nor single critical viewpoint linking them (nor is there ceaseless repetition of a handful of opinions, as with Bloom). Not a bad choice for an introduction to a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's art, particularly if you wish to include critical insights from the past few decades, but not as thought provoking, or concise, as Goddard. With Garber, you'll feel like you have attended a diverting though lengthy lecture; with Goddard, you'll have read an argument with which you may agree or disagree, but not easily dismiss or forget.
Product Review Summary: Garber Above All This is a "must have" for any student, scholar, or Shakespeare aficionado. Asimov is good to start with, but this is superb: if you work with Shakespeare, you will find that some part of each essay expresses opinions you already held (and how nice to be supported by such a scholar!) and the rest shows you aspects you never thought of.
Hooray! (and for her most recent book, too).
Product Review Summary: Wonderful analyses of Shakespeare's works This is a wonderful book which helps the reader understand the language of Mr. Shakespeare. I am an English major at a university in California and my Shakespeare professor highly recommended this book to help us understand exactly what is contained in the elements of each play. I used it to help me understand and to write coherently about the element of disguise in "Much Ado About Nothing" for my term paper. The author dissects each play, bringing the symbolism and meaning to a level easily understood by the lay person.
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