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Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) [Hardcover]

Posted on November 15, 2010 by hirohurl

How is it that the British literary critic Terry Eagleton can say that ‘it is difficult to read Shakespeare without feeling that he was almost certainly familiar with the writings of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein and Derrida’, or that … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love [Hardcover]

Posted on October 11, 2010 by hirohurl

From Booklist As anyone who has read the non-Bowdlerized editions of his plays can attest, Shakespeare loved a lusty line. His plays are filled to the brim with bawdy puns and sly double entendres. Just how packed Shakespeare‘s plays are … Continue reading →

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Prefaces to Shakespeare [Hardcover]

Posted on September 8, 2010 by hirohurl

To read English at Cambridge in the late Fifties was to have the last opportunity to read the whole cannon of English literature. Tony Tanner has a strong claim to be the best reader ever produced by this particular formation and this is the underlying force of all his work, but especially his Prefaces to Shakespeare. Continue reading →

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