Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest, and fruitful engagements with others not often read or produced-Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor King John Timon of Athens Pericles and Cymbeline. Here are fresh meditations on plays we have come to know and love, such as Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, With erudition lightly carried, Garber illumines the overarching patterns and lush details of the plays, closely attentive to what matters most in Shakespeare: language, theme, plot, and character. Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the twentieth century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays, in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. In Shakespeare After All, Marjorie Garber-professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University-gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years.
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