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“This is a book that I wouldn’t expect anybody to read from cover to cover. But if you wanted to look at this whole international, trans-historical issue of how Shakespeare went from being a glover’s son in a one-horse town, Stratford-upon-Avon, to being probably the most globally recognized author of all time, it traces some of those tracks.” Read more...
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception
Emma Smith, Literary Scholar
Our most recommended books
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De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde -
Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present
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The Rhetoric of Religion
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The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
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Selected Diaries
by Virginia Woolf -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by Mikhail Bakhtin & translated by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson
