{"product_id":"9780241361634","title":"This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Smith, Emma, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/03\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: Pelican Books, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Pelican,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241361634\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35023001452697,"sku":"9780241361634","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780241361634_55ee9aa8-c019-4828-951f-3ae081b40dd3.jpg?v=1601406176","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780241361634","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}