How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3527-6

Paperback

320 pages

October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions.

A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare
Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas
Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors
Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings
Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate
Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions