Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

by Leonard Barkan

Book Overview

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.

Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823299198
• ISBN13: 9780823299195
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"