Shakespeare
By: Mark Van Doren ; foreword by David Lehman.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781590171684
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: This book 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 the Bard.
Notes: Includes index.