Shakespeare After All
- ISBN-10
- 0307490815
- ISBN-13
- 9780307490810
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 1008
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-11-19
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Marjorie Garber
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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