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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.
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When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory.
In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on—writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader, the greatest and perhaps the last in the line of great introductions to Shakespeare written by such luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.
Although these prefaces are written for a general audience, there is much value for the scholar as well. Tanner introduces some of the most significant recent and historical scholarship on Shakespeare to show the reader how certain critics frame large issues in a useful way. This scholarly generosity permits Johnson, Hazlitt, Emerson, Thoreau, Ruskin, Pater, and many others to enter into conversation. The Independent said of the project, "All of Tanner's life and education had prepared him for this task and the results are magnificent—both accessible and erudite."
Contents
* Foreword by Stephen Heath Comedies * The Comedy of Errors * The Taming of the Shrew * The Two Gentlemen of Verona * Love's Labor's Lost * Romeo and Juliet * A Midsummer Night's Dream * The Merchant of Venice * The Merry Wives of Windsor * Much Ado About Nothing * As You Like It * Twelfth Night * All's Well That Ends Well * Measure for Measure Histories * Henry VI, Part One * Henry VI, Part Two * Henry VI, Part Three * Richard III * King John * Richard II * Henry IV, Part One * Henry IV, Part Two * Henry V * Henry VIII Major Tragedies * Hamlet * Othello * King Lear * Macbeth Greek and Roman Plays * Titus Andronicus * Troilus and Cressida * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Timon of Athens * Coriolanus Romances * Pericles * Cymbeline * The Winter's Tale * The Tempest * About the Author
