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Overview
Everybody’s Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven plays—Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal.Synopsis
Everybody’s Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven plays—Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal.
Library Journal
Taken as a whole, this collection represents 40 years of the work of one of the most renowned of modern Shakespeare critics. Of these 11 essays, eight have been previously published. Two of these (on Hamlet and Lear ) are well known and have been reprinted many times; the others have appeared in scholarly journals and books. One (on Othello ) is new. Mack writes for the general reader who enjoys Shakespeare and reads for pleasure; he declines to enter the ``tribal wars and Byzantine pedantries that now balkanize professional students of literature.'' His interest is more universal; he wants to know ``how great works of art manage to affect us as profoundly as they do.'' These are compelling, thoughtful essays that will encourage any attentive reader to think afresh about familiar plays.-- Bryan Aubrey, Fairfield, Ia.