Shakespeare's Magnanimity by Howard Jacobson
The field of Shakespearean studies is cluttered with the fossils of past discussion, and somehow we have to pick our way around them. In the opening scene to this unusual book, these obstructive entities are brought to life and engage in lively argument. Four essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus follow, all of which freshen the air: unfamiliar, unspecialised, free-ranging and openly argumentative, but tied at all points to the original text. Shakespeare wrote out of, and about, a common humanity, and it is with humanity, common and uncommon, that we must read or watch him. This book is accordingly addressed to the academic or the new student.
Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784870508 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784870501 |
| Title | Shakespeare's Magnanimity |
| Author | Howard Jacobson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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