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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Booth is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Close Reading Without Readings is a collection of essays by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth in which the author directs readers to the experience of reading, bringing to bear the full power of his scholarship, critical acumen, and imagination to the study of how literature works. Zusammenfassung Close Reading Without Readings is a collection of essays by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth in which the author directs readers to the experience of reading! bringing to bear the full power of his scholarship! critical acumen! and imagination to the study of how literature works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword 1. Poetic Richness, A Preliminary Audit: Antony and Cleopatra 3.10 2. The Acquiescent Audience 3. Desdemona's Eyes and the Aesthetics of Blindness 4. 2 Henry IV and the Aesthetics of Failure 5. Faith in The Winter's Tale and Faith in The Winter's Tale 6. A Discourse on the Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. Twelfth Night and Othello: Those Extraordinary Twins 8. Deviation, Variation, and Variety in Stanza One of Venus and Adonis 9. On the Eventfulness of Hero and Leander 10. Prelapsarian Eroticism: Paradise Lost 11. On the Aesthetic Significance of Non-Signifying Signification in Romeo and Juliet 12. Liking Julius Caesar 13. On the Value of Hamlet Index
