The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew Essays, Memoirs and Reviews

Passionate, controversial and illuminating - this collection contains Empson''s best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his extraordinary Inaugural Lecture as Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University.>

About the author

Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works. He was Head of the English Department at the University of Sheffield.John Haffenden is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Product details

• Authors: William (Late of University of Sheffield Empson, William Empson
• Assisted by: John (University of Sheffield Haffenden (Editor), John Haffenden (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2015
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781474247580
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-4758-0
• Pages: 272
• Dimensions (packing): 16.2 x 23.6 x 2 cm
• Series: Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academ; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean