Mad about Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

Mad about Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

Enlightening, moving SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.

‘Many of us are mad about Shakespeare, whether as audience, actor or scholarJonathan Bate represents us all in his enlightening, moving report of his own personal “madness”. Reading it is an education’
Sir Ian McKellen

‘A startlingly original journey into the soul of Shakespeare by one of his greatest living interpreters’
Sir Anthony Seldon

‘Jonathan Bate’s Mad About Shakespeare offers a series of moving lessons in the complex grammar of life. Speaking as student and teacher, son, husband, father and dramaturge, Bate produces a work of significant cultural and familial history that runs through the language and scenery of Shakespeare. Tying and untying knots, Bate asks how we might live alongside literature as a source of knowledge, comfort and hope.
Shakespeare’s expansive plots and wise conceits offer extra space and time in which to live and breathe in the face of emergency; a literary bloodline offering wisdom, insight and consolation’
Sally Bayley

‘An encouraging and welcome reminder of the importance of reading and talking about reading with young people … I hope lots of English teachers will read it and take heart’
Dr Katy Ricks, Chief Master of King Edwards School

‘Ranges elegantly over a range of literary figures … A very readable account of the thrill of discovering literature … It is a touchingly reticent and romantic book’
Literary Review

Jonathan Bate CBE is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. He is Vice-President of the British Academy, a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and a 2014 judge for the Man Booker Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780008167493
ISBN 10	0008167494
Title	Mad about Shakespeare
Author	Jonathan Bate
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2023-04-13
Number of pages	320
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