Shakespeare
by Mark Van Doren
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This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare's protean art. His Shakespeare is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of show more the Bard. show lessTags
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Van Doren has written an interesting book. The author's basic conception of Shakespeare is that he was a poet more interested in life than in art.
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- Canonical title
- Shakespeare
- Original publication date
- 1939
- People/Characters
- William Shakespeare
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 822.33 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616
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- PR2976 .V25 — Language and Literature English English Literature English renaissance (1500-1640)
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- English
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