Why Shakespeare? /

Belsey, Catherine.

Why Shakespeare? / Catherine Belsey. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - xii, 190 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shakespeare's singularity -- As you like it and "The golden goose" -- King Lear and the missing salt -- The exiled princess in The winter's tale -- Fairy tales for grown-ups in A midsummer night's dream -- Hamlet and the reluctant hero -- Twelfth Night and the riddle of gender -- Cultural difference as conundrum in The merchant of Venice -- Postscript : happy ever after?

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.

PR 2900 / .B38 2007