Shakespeare and Modern Culture

by Marjorie Garber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307390969
• ISBN13: 9780307390967
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.5"