Shakespeare

Author/Contributor(s):	Van Doren, Mark; Lehman, David
Publisher:	NYRB Classics
Date:	8/31/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.