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| Shakespeare the Thinker | 
 enlarge | Author: A. D. Nuttall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 60689
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0300136293
Dewey Decimal Number: 820
EAN: 9780300136296
ASIN: 0300136293
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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a great, great book April 26, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I had been reading through a number of very good books on Shakespeare over the last couple of years, starting with James Shapiro's terrific "Shakespeare and the Jews" and "1599", as well as Ackroyd's biography. So I'm keen for a good book on Shakespeare, but want something which is accessible and human.
Nuttall's book is concerned with the psychological, moral and philosphical insights underpinning Shakespeare's writing, but writes also in an historical context - commentary on the dramatist's work is complemented by reference to his forbearers in Rome and Greece, as well as his contemporaries; Nuttall also compares Shakespeare with more modern writers and thinkers on occasion, as a means to opening up the discussion without cheapening it.
Get past the first chapter, with its discussion of New Historicism - and so less obviously relevant to a lay reader such as myself, though still very interesting - and this definitely is a great, great book.
It is a passionate and intense and closely-argued work, which traces the development of Shakespeare's concepts of identity and self-awareness in particular through the chronology of his plays.
It is also quite a moving book in the depth of thought and feeling it reveals not only on Shakespeare's part, but on Nuttall's also, especially in its sense of humour.
A book I hope you'll read.
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