Reading Shakespeare
Publisher: Brand: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 22, 2013
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780230230132
Description: In a lively introduction to Shakespeare's life, career and the theatre of his day, Michael Alexander returns to the basics of how to read Shakespeare's works as literary texts. Surveying the most popular and widely-studied plays and sonnets, he elaborates upon the historical, cultural and literary contexts that surrounded their creation.