Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1953
Publisher
Doubleday Anchor Books
ISBN-10
0385092709
ISBN-13
9780385092708
Description
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare's protean art. His Shakespeare is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of the Bard.