Bottom
Subtitle: on Shakespeare
By: Louis Zukofsky and Celia Thaew Zukofsky ; foreword by Bob Perelman
Contributors: Zukofsky, Celia Thaew
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; University Presses Marketing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H; Wantage
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Themes, motives; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Musical settings; Zukofsky, Celia Thaew
Genres: Musical settings
Description: "Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare - whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish - and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision ("the eyes have it") through both Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another.

In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams.".

"The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman."--BOOK JACKET.