The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812978366 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 624 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time.From the Hardcover edition.. “Ron Rosenbaum is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”–David RemnickIn The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. The Shakespeare Wars offers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeare’s work at its deepest levels. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining H
Balancing academic reportage with his own lively observations, Rosenbaum wrestles with the weightiest issues of Shakespeare studies in a down-to-earth manner that readers will applaud. Elsewhere he recalls how seeing Peter Brook's definitive 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Rosenbaum's "outsider's odyssey into the innermost citadels of scholarship" to investigate the painstaking work of Shakespearean textual experts as they convert the Bard's earliest published works into authoritative editions. He considers the politics of portraying Shylock and Falstaff, appraises Shakespeare on film and p
"A Book for Shakespeare Buffs" according to M. Golding. "The Shakespeare Wars" is a fine book for anyone who enjoys Shakespeare but has sometimes wondered just what he was really getting at. There are two major problems. The first is language--did words in the late 16th early17th centuries mean what they do now and if not just what did a particular word or phrase mean? The second puzzle is which version of a Shakespeare play is the "correct" one; would it be one of the early quartos or the Foloio. Scholars have ling disagreed on these and other points and Ron Rosenbaum has followed these scholarly wars and help the readers come to a better understanding of Shakespeare.This i. "A curate's egg of a book" according to John Cragg. Ron Rosenbaum has written a very bad book on several very interesting topics. The problem is that Rosenbaum really only has material for about 80 pages in a book that runs to 550. He fills the book with repetition, digressions, personal reminiscences and other forms or wordiness that become steadily more tedious as one plows on. Unfortunately, it is not a book one can easily skim, the main points and (few) nuggets of insight being buried deep in the irrelvant verbiage. Rosenbaum makes Polonius look like the soul of pithy wit and focus. He comes across himself -- and there is more of Rosenbaum than of Shakespeare in this. "Not for the casual reader" according to Nancy A. Fox. Ron Rosenbaum had a life transforming experience when he attended Peter Brook's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Stratford-On-Avon. He has spent a lot of time and energy over the years trying to discover why it had such an impact on him, and what is it about Shakepeare's writing that affects him and many people so deeply. This 500+ page tome is the end result of his seven year search to discover answers.This book is not easy to describe, so perhaps it would be easier to describe what it is not first: it's not a fast read, it's not a book that can be skimmed through, it's not a book about Shakespeare the man, it's