{"product_id":"reading-shakespeare-reading-me-paperback","title":"Reading Shakespeare Reading Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonard Barkan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishing. . . . Hilarious. . . . The mixture of analysis and memoir works because the author participates fully in the action of reading. . . . Everyone will wish they could have studied with the man they have come to know through his writing\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReading Shakespeare Reading Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumphant vindication of critical self-absorption. This remarkable, exuberantly written book proves what many would scarcely think possible: that details unique to one individual (and a highly unusual one at that) can lead to fresh insights into some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and at the same time that a sustained reflection on plays written four hundred years ago can lead to intimate and absorbing self-revelations.\"--\u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Barkan's luminous prose, his prodigious humor, and his generous readings of the plays and sonnets are a real joy. This brings tons of fun to the Bard's oeuvre.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Starred Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them, and they are speaking to your life, your sensibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on fifty years as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan has produced a captivating book that asks us to reconsider what it means to read. Barkan violates the rule of distance he was taught and has always taught his students. He asks: Where does this brilliantly contrived fiction actually touch \u003ci\u003eme\u003c\/i\u003e? Where is Shakespeare in effect telling the story of my life? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of engrossing stories, from family secrets to the world of the theater, and written with humor and genuine excitement about literary experiences worthy of our attention and our love, \u003ci\u003eReading Shakespeare Reading Me \u003c\/i\u003emakes Shakespeare's plays come alive in new ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Barkan\u003c\/b\u003e is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Barkan\u003c\/b\u003e is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, where he teaches comparative literature, art history, English, and classics. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and the Culture of Europe from Rome to the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton, 2021), \u003ci\u003eBerlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 2016), \u003ci\u003eMichelangelo: A Life on Paper\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton, 2010), \u003ci\u003eSatyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome\u003c\/i\u003e (Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, 2006), and \u003ci\u003eUnearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(Yale, 1999), which won prizes from the Modern Language Association, the College Art Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and Phi Beta Kappa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774779195680,"sku":"9781531507312","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5f68b368561bceac3208d9930838a06e.webp?v=1780454733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/reading-shakespeare-reading-me-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}