Genius of Shakespeare

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick and on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is the editor of the highly acclaimed RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan) and the author of many books, including John Clare: A Biography (Picador). He was made CBE in the Queen’s 80th birthday honours, for his services to literature and higher education. Vorwort Reissued with a new afterword by Professor Bate Zusammenfassung Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life – and afterlife – of the greatest English poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world’s leading Shakespearean scholars, deftly shows how the legend of Shakespeare’s genius was created and sustained, and how it has become a truly global phenomenon.

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Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Bate
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2008
• EAN: 9780330458436
• ISBN: 978-0-330-45843-6
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Picador Classic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, Language, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean