The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare's Art, Volume 10Rarely does a scholar single-handedly point Shakespeare study in a new direction. But in the 1950s, when brilliant insights were being achieved in Shakespeare's language, and a few theatre historians were recording stagings and stage business, Marvin Rosenberg led the way to a wider perspective of the poet-playwright's genius. He insisted that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other inseparably. |
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| Title | The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare's Art, Volume 10 G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare's Art, Marvin Rosenberg |
| Author | Marvin Rosenberg |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0874135982, 9780874135985 |
| Length | 365 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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