Shakespeare
Poet and Citizen
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Victor Kiernan | ISBN: | 9781783606733 |
| Publisher: | Zed Books | Publication: | February 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Zed Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Victor Kiernan |
| ISBN: | 9781783606733 |
| Publisher: | Zed Books |
| Publication: | February 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Zed Books |
| Language: | English |
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New edition, featuring a new foreword by Michael Wood
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'Victor Kiernan is one of the best historians of seventeenth-century England.' - Christopher Hill
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'Unlike so many other books on Shakespeare … it will not scare off the non-academic reader.' - Guardian
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Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
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Offers a provocative critique of mainstream literary criticism, which Kiernan argues has fed a reductionist interpretation of Shakespeare’s writings
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New edition, featuring a new foreword by Michael Wood
-
'Victor Kiernan is one of the best historians of seventeenth-century England.' - Christopher Hill
-
'Unlike so many other books on Shakespeare … it will not scare off the non-academic reader.' - Guardian
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Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
-
Offers a provocative critique of mainstream literary criticism, which Kiernan argues has fed a reductionist interpretation of Shakespeare’s writings
