Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

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"To see, at long last, Frye's overview of the Shakespearean world in its totality, after having so long been teased with brilliant perceptions of the pieces, is a critical and a publishing occasion of great importance to all of us."—Alvin B. Kernan, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Princeton University

"A boon to both Shakespearean scholars and readers dipping into the Bard's works for the first time. . . . Written with verve, erudition and more-than-occasional humor, this 'summing-up' of 50 years of scholarship will be read with pleasure, profit and gratitude by drama lovers for years to come."—Kirkus Reviews

"Frye's study reveals each play's spirit and essence, while also investigating its more concrete components. . . . An excellent introduction from which all readers—students, teachers, or simply the interested—will benefit."—Booklist

"Frye's work is completely accessible, its style crisp and engaging. Most of all, it is full of basic 'good sense' about our most abused literary figure. Highly rewarding."—Library Journal

"Undergraduate lectures these may be, but the sensibility and wisdom informing the book make it a delight for the expert too."—S. Schoenbaum, New York Times Book Review

"These are admirable lectures and Frye never lets his students depart without giving them something to think about."—Kenneth Muir, Times Higher Education Supplement

"The most accessible and sheerly enjoyable of his books. . . . The effect is that of listening to a fluent, genial conversationalist who loves Shakespeare and unabashedly celebrates him in that high aspect of criticism well called 'appreciation.' It would have been a pleasure to have been in the hall."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

"One of the major critical voices of our time. . . . We encounter interpretations new and refreshing. . . . Northrop Frye on Shakespeare is a very human and gratifying performance."—Sidney Homan, Washington Times Magazine

"A find. . . . Frye is a fascinating example of the modern radical thinker finding his text in the classics."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

"Given Frye's longstanding eminence in the halls of academe, it is a pleasure to report that some of his reflections on Shakespeare have now been made available to readers who may not have encountered his writings in the past. . . . The result is a book that is both unusually accessible and unusually challenging."—John F. Andrews, Washington Post Book Review

"There is a rhetorical bite and critical intelligence on display in the work that just might help undergraduates sense that there is something more to literary study than getting either the 'facts' or the moral pieties down pat."—Jeane E. Howard, Studies in English Literature

"Frye in almost any form can hardly keep from being provocative, challenging, and illuminating."—Joseph H. Summers, Shakespeare Quarterly

"This valuable introductory work is an accessible appreciation of Shakespeare's plays rather than a research tool, Frye brings the plays to life as drama."—Marion Lomax, Literature and History

"The lectures are atonce an admirably clear introduction to and a sophisticated study of Shakespeare's plays, as exciting for those who have been reading Shakespeare for years as for those who have just begun."—Karen L. Edwards, Kenyon Review

"One of the best literary critics of our time provides an introduction, full of insight, to the genius of Shakespeare through a study of ten plays."—Oxford Times

"This renowned Canadian critic and theorist is best known for abstruse literary theories, but these essays taken from lectures in an undergraduate introductory course are both rich in insight and compelling in their clarity. They are clearly designed to enhance a first encounter with the plays discussed, and they undoubtedly succeed in that goal."—Kliatt

ISBN: 9780300037111
Publication Date: July 27, 1988

186 pages, 6 x 9

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