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Shakespeare, The Director's Cut
This new edition of essays on Shakespeare's plays is a combination of Volume 1 (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, King Lear and the Taming of the Shrew) and Volume 2 (Richard II, The HenryIVs, Henry V, The Henry VIs and Richard III) and four new essays on Othello, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It so that essays on the tragedies, histories and comedies are all covered in one volume.
- GenresShakespeare
352 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2005
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July 1, 2018
It's instructive to read this in conjunction with Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love. Two very different points of view and interpretations of Shakespeare.
The second half of this collection - the history plays - is weaker than the first part, where Bogdanov comments on the nonhistory plays. He's very focused on politics and social commentary. That is why I mentioned Jillian Keenan's book, which focuses on the personal (and, as might be expected, doesn't mention any of the histories).
Recommended.
The second half of this collection - the history plays - is weaker than the first part, where Bogdanov comments on the nonhistory plays. He's very focused on politics and social commentary. That is why I mentioned Jillian Keenan's book, which focuses on the personal (and, as might be expected, doesn't mention any of the histories).
Recommended.
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