The Genius of Shakespeare

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Jonathan Bate

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Picador Classic

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW "The best modern book on Shakespeare" Sir Peter Hall Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And what makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? Exploring Shakespeare's life, including questions of authorship and autobiography, and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries, this extraordinary book asks how Shakespeare has come to be such a powerful symbol of genius. Written with lively passion and wit, The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life - and afterlife - of our greatest poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world's leading Shakespearean scholars, has shown how the legend of Shakespeare's genius was created and sustained, and how the man himself became a truly global phenomenon. PRAISE FOR JONATHAN BATE "Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . . . Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm" Daily Telegraph

Author Biography:

Jonathan Bate is Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford, where he is Provost of Worcester College. He is the editor of the highly acclaimed RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan) and the author of many books, including John Clare: A Biography (Picador), which was shortlisted for seven prizes and won Britain's two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. His biography of Ted Hughes was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Professor Bate has lectured on Shakespeare throughout the world and has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and the University of California. In January 2015 he became the youngest person ever to have been knighted for services to literary scholarship.

Release date Australia

April 7th, 2016

Author

Jonathan Bate

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

432

Series

Picador Classic

Dimensions

131x197x28

ISBN-13

9781509822546

Product ID

24160827

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