Reviews
PRAISE FOR MARJORIE GARBER'SSHAKESPEARE AFTER ALL "Garber's is the most exhilarating seminar room you'll ever enter." Newsweek "A return to the times when the critic's primary function was as an enthusiast, to open up the glories of the written word for the reader." The New York Times "[Garber's] introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading." The New Yorker "The best one-volume critical guide to the plays." The Miami Herald "A delight . . . Polished, thoughtful, eminently useful . . . Not only a wonderful guide to the plays, but just as importantly, it's a guide to the reading of the plays . . . Garber writes elegantly and insightfully . . . The reader seeking an informed guide to each play simply cannot do better." The Providence Journal "An absolute joy . . . Extremely lively and witty . . . Remarkable . . . Authoritative." Tuscon Citizen "Garber keeps her eye on the goal, to illuminate the experience of reading and seeing the plays, and achieves it with quiet efficiency." San Jose Mercury News "Stimulating and informative." The Charlotte Observer
Table of Content
Introduction: Shakespeare and Modern Culture 1.The Tempest, or the Conundrum of Man 2.Romeo and Juliet, or the Untimelieness of Youth 3.Coriolanus, or the Estrangement of Self 4.Macbeth, or the Necessity of Interpretation 5.Richard III, or the Problem of Fact 6.The Merchant of Venice, or the Question of Intention 7.Othello, or the Persistence of Difference 8.Henry V, or the Quest for Exemplarity 9.Hamlet, or the Matter of Character 10.King Lear, or the Dream of Sublimity Afterword: The Rest Is Shakespeare Notes Acknowledgments Index
