Author: Tony Tanner
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674051378
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674051378
Prefaces to Shakespeare
When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. Get Prefaces to Shakespeare literature books for free.
In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on-writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader, the greatest and perhaps the last in the line of great introductions to Shakespeare written by such luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture t Check Prefaces to Shakespeare our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.
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In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on-writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture t
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