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Authors: Anthony Burgess
ISBN-13: 9780786709724, ISBN-10: 0786709723
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess(1917-1993) was the celebrated author of more than thirty novels, including A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers, and several highly regarded studies of the works of James Joyce (Re: Joyce, Joysprick, Here Comes Everybody) and of the English language itself. During his time in America, he was Visiting Fellow of Princeton University and a Distinguished Professor of City College, New York.

Book Synopsis

Even readers who have a good grasp of Shakespeare will find this biography a surprise and delight.

The Atlantic Monthly

"Animated by affection and an understanding of the creative imagination that only a creative writer can bring to bear."

	Preface to the Third Edition
	Acknowledgements
1	Reinterpreting Shakespeare Today	1
	New Critical Perspectives	1
	Re-reading The Merchant of Venice	16
	The Historical Dimension	24
2	The Future of History: 1 and 2 Henry IV	38
	The Politics of Interpretation	38
	'From a prince to a prentice'	43
	'of things/ As yet not come to life'	59
3	Shakespearean Tragedy: The Subversive Imagination	67
	Questioning the Consensus	67
	Romeo and Juliet : The Murdering Word	72
	'That's he that was Othello'	83
	Macbeth: 'For mine own good'	89
	King Lear: 'men/ Are as the time is'	95
4	Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: The Utopian Imagination	102
	'let wonder seem familiar'	102
	Playing for Time: The Comedy of Errors	122
	Measure for Measure: Double Trouble	133
	The Tempest: The Complicities of Art	147
5	'Dreaming on things to come': Shakespeare and the Future of Criticism	158
	Notes	177
	Further Reading	205
	Index	226

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