Reading Shakespeare's mind / Steve Sohmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohmer, Steve, author.

Contributor:

Sohmer, Steve, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Friends and associates.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Psychology.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white); digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces to the names of Jaques, Touchstone, Feste, Jessica, the 'Dark Lady' and others. Steven Sohmer explores aspects of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets that have been hitherto overlooked or misinterpreted in an effort to better understand the man and his work. If you've ever wondered who Pigrogromitus was, or why Jaques spies on Touchstone and Audrey - or what the famous riddle M.O.A.I. stands for - this is the book for you.

An accessible, enojyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.

Contents:

Preface: Impersonal Shakespeare

part I: Shakespeare, lovers and friends

1. Joining the mice-eyed decipherers

2. Marlowe's ghost in As You Like It

3. The dark lady of The Merchant of Venice

part II: Queen Elizabeth's Twelfth Night

4. Twelfth Night on Twelfth Night

5. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night wordplay

6. Shakespeare and Paul in Illyria

7. Nashe and Harvey in Illyria

8. M.O.A.I. deciphered at last

9. Beginning at the beginning

10. Tributes private and public

Epilogue: Personal Shakespeare

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526138071

1526138077

9781526137104

1526137100

9781526124265

1526124262

OCLC:

978976016

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access