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This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare's protean art. His Shakespeare is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of the Bard.
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Constance Feulner
reviewed Shakespeare (New York Review Books Classics Series) on October 05, 2007 Shakespeare (New York Review Books Classics Series)
In Quiz Show, one of my favorite movies, Paul Scofield played Mark Van Doren as the epitome of kindly, genial learning, a scrupulous, drolly cultivated mind in humanist tweed (as opposed to the TV executives, all sheathed in sharkish blues, teals and grays). The scene where he finds out that his son cheated on the show is heartbreaking; you see his bemusement before television turn into horror. Anyway, I love this book because reading it I hear and picture Scofield-as-Van Doren professing in an old Columbia lecture hall, a profound love of and lifelong familiarity with Shakespeare having smoothed his lectures to graceful yarns, delivered note-less, thrilling revelations coming at you on a stream of easy, cultured talk. Van Doren's first book, on Dryden, the one that is the occasion for T.S. Eliot's famous essay-review, is awe-inspiring but doesn't have this book's warm-hued patina.
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