Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare)
"Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts warmly convey the authors' faith that close textual readings unlock greater pleasure in his work...Shakespeare Up Close is a more scholarly collection, clearly meant for the classroom use, with the majority of essays by academics engaged in detailed textual analysis. But this sort of analysis ca be extremely useful in performing Shakespeare... It's a brilliant example of how close reading can inspire staging that reinforces Shakespeare's themes...A number of these academic essays suggest stimulating possibilities for performance...Highly intellectual." - Wendy Smith,American Theatre