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Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

O'Toole Fintan
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781035908738
Publisert
2024-06-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
O'Toole Fintan

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

O'Toole Fintan
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
O'Toole Fintan
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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I’ve never read a book like this before: it’s challenging, irreverent and funny.

Roddy Doyle

Convincing, incisive and stimulating.

Independent on Sunday

A brilliant and extremely readable distillation of some of the current thinking about Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Irish Times

Se alle

A lively and intelligent work of criticism...Shakespeare is hard, and O’Toole has valiantly refused to simplify him.

Michael Caines, TLS

A useful corrective to the philistine notion that Shakespeare must be simplified and domesticated so that people can understand him.

Steven Poole, Guardian

You’ll look at Shakespeare with new eyes after reading this book.

Sunday Herald

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
Les mer
A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showing how the finest plays of Shakespeare have been made unintelligible and irrelevant to a modern audience in an attempt to fit a world of conservative values.
Les mer
Small, elegant gift book that will appeal to both Shakespeare and general readers.

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I’ve never read a book like this before: it’s challenging, irreverent and funny.

Roddy Doyle

Convincing, incisive and stimulating.

Independent on Sunday

A brilliant and extremely readable distillation of some of the current thinking about Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Irish Times

Se alle

A lively and intelligent work of criticism...Shakespeare is hard, and O’Toole has valiantly refused to simplify him.

Michael Caines, TLS

A useful corrective to the philistine notion that Shakespeare must be simplified and domesticated so that people can understand him.

Steven Poole, Guardian

You’ll look at Shakespeare with new eyes after reading this book.

Sunday Herald

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
Les mer
A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showing how the finest plays of Shakespeare have been made unintelligible and irrelevant to a modern audience in an attempt to fit a world of conservative values.
Les mer
Small, elegant gift book that will appeal to both Shakespeare and general readers.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781035908738
Publisert
2024-06-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
O'Toole Fintan

Om bidragsyterne

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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