Prefaces to Shakespeare by Tony Tanner ISBN 13: 9780674051379

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (24 cm), XI, 825 pp. Cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on--writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader, the greatest and perhaps the last in the line of great introductions to Shakespeare written by such luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays. Although these prefaces are written for a general… Read More

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Belknap Press, 2010-03-30. First Edition (1st printing),. hardcover. Used: Good.