The Genius of Shakespeare
10 best books like The Genius of Shakespeare (Jonathan Bate): Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Quichotte, Richard III, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Germany: Memories of a Nation, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Why We Need Religion
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743484908 |
Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743482778 |
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Onto...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0192839934 |
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0671722921 |
Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's
TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:
TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1481506242 |
A major new series from the makers of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," exploring the fascinating and complex history of Germany from the origins of the Holy Roman Empire right up to the present day. Written and presented by Neil MacGregor, it is produced by BBC Radio 4, in partnership with the British...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
| Author | Mary Norris |
| ISBN | 1324001275 |
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
| Author | Charles Nicholl |
| ISBN | 0670018503 |
A brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life
In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine a dispute over an unpaid marriage...
| Author | Stephen T. Asma |
| ISBN | 0190469676 |
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues...
