Book description
An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy
of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind".
- Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar
- Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics
and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and
issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure
- Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a
"great mind"
David Bevington
is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor the
Humanities at the University of Chicago. His numerous publications
include
The Bantam Shakespeare
, in 29 paperback volumes (1988, new edition forthcoming), and
The
Complete Works of Shakespeare
(fifth edition, 2003), as well as the Oxford Shakespeare edition of
Henry IV Part I
(1987), the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of
Antony and
Cleopatra
(second edition, 2005), and the Arden Shakespeare edition of
Troilus
and Cressida
(1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is
a senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge
edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He is also general editor of
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
(2002), and the author of
Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human
Experience
(second edition, Blackwell, 2005).
