Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Marjorie B Garber

Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Country
United States
Published
15 May 2010
Pages
326
ISBN
9780307390967

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Marjorie B Garber

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.

 

From the Trade Paperback edition.

This item is not currently in-stock. It can be ordered online and is expected to ship in approx 4 weeks

Our stock data is updated periodically, and availability may change throughout the day for in-demand items. Please call the relevant shop for the most current stock information. Prices are subject to change without notice.

Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to a wishlist.