How to Read Shakespeare

by Maurice Charney

Book Overview

How to Read Shakespeare offers an approach to Shakespeare through reading and seeing his plays. The assumption is that Shakespeare's plays are fully comprehensible to modern readers and theater-goers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007010655X
• ISBN13: 9780070106550
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Useful Book in Understanding Shakespeare!

Dr. Maurice Charney is the alternative to Dr. Harold Bloom in the literary understanding and criticism of William Shakespeare. This short book offers insights without being too technical or too detailed. Dr. Charney is equally capable as Dr. Bloom in analyzing William Shakespeare without being intimidating. Although both Bloom and Charney try not to be intimidating to their reading audience. If you are literary buff like myself, it is good to have two different literary critics for any author particularly William Shakespeare.