Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Shakespeare and Modern Culture
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780307377951
ISBN-13 : 0307377954
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Culture by : Marjorie Garber

Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Culture written by Marjorie Garber and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.


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