Shakespeare After All [Paperback]

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays,Shakespeare After Allis the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.

Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, fromThe Two Gentlemen of VeronatoThe Two Noble Kinsmen.Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.

A Note on the Text
Introduction
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Richard III
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Richard II
King John
The Merchant of Venice
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
Othello
All’s Well That Ends Well
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
Henry VIII (All Is True)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
General Index
Character Index“The indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer. . . . Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” –Newsweek

“The best one-volume critical guide to the plays. . . . Stimulating and informative.” –San Jose Mercury News

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