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Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book,...
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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?
In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling author Fintan O’Toole examines four of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear. He shows how their tragic heroes have been over-simplified and moulded to fit restrictive, conservative values, and restores the true heart and spirit of the classics.
I've never read a book like this before: it's challenging, irreverent and funny. — Roddy Doyle
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035908738
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 208
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About the Author
Fintan O'Toole is the bestselling author of We Don’t Know Ourselves, Heroic Failure, Ship of Fools, A Traitor's Kiss, White Savage and other acclaimed books. He is a columnist for the Irish Times and advising editor of the New York Review of Books. He has received the Silvers-Dudley Prize for Journalism, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize.
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