Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

From one of the worldâ€™s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All (â€œthe indispensable introduction to the indispensable writerâ€â€“Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is â€œthat Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.â€

Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as â€œnaturallyâ€ our own and even as â€œnaturallyâ€ trueâ€“ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Yet many of these ideas, timely as ever, have been reimaginedâ€“are indeed often now first encounteredâ€“not only in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news but also in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law.

Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and twentieth century and contemporary cultureâ€“from James Joyceâ€™s Ulysses to George W. Bushâ€™s reading list. In The Merchant of Venice, she looks at the question of intention; in Hamlet, the matter of character; in King Lear, the dream of sublimity; in Othello, the persistence of difference; and in Macbeth, the necessity of interpretation. She discusses the conundrum of man in The Tempest; the quest for exemplarity in Henry V; the problem of fact in Richard III; the estrangement of self in Coriolanus; and the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a tour de force reimagining of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of protean â€œShakespeare.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-12-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307377678

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-12-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307377678

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

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