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How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays
Laurie Maguire
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Description for How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays
Hardback. This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. Editor(s): Maguire, Laurie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE
“This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la différance!”
DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
“Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405135269
SKU
V9781405135269
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Laurie Maguire
Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College and Reader in English at Oxford University. Her books include Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996), Studying Shakespeare (2004), Where There’s a Will There’s a Way (2006), and Shakespeare’s Names (2007). Maguire has published widely on Renaissance drama, textual problems, performance, and women's studies.
Reviews for How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays
"The contributors to Laurie Maguire's book show by doing.... They are unusually present in what they write, speaking directly to their presumed student readers. This is in some ways the sort of writing we associate with school textbooks, and it is all the better for that." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008)