Reviews"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 "An enraptured ceremony of adoration. . . . Ambitious and thorough. . . . This is a useful book [and] a source of elucidation." Newsday "[Garber's] introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading." The New Yorker From the Trade Paperback edition., "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 "An enraptured ceremony of adoration. . . . Ambitious and thorough. . . . This is a useful book [and] a source of elucidation." Newsday "[Garber's] introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading." The New Yorker
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Table Of ContentA 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
SynopsisA brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is 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, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The 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., Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the 20th century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, in chronological sequence.