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PELICAN BOOKS THIS IS SHAKESPEARE - EMMA SMIT...

A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read  perhaps the
best book on Shakespeare  full stop' Alex Preston  Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or
re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A 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.Is 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. This electrifying new
book thrives on revealing  not resolving  the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their
changing topicality. It 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. It 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. The 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.

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