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| Shakespeare After Theory | 
| Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
Category: EBooks
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $23.96
You Save: $5.99 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 87496
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
ASIN: B000P2XHS0
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 We all follow the Forest March 29, 2004
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A fabulous book by the literary critic annually named "Best Dressed Shakespearean" by Mr. Blackwell.
Shakespeare for our Time April 17, 2001
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a smart, sophisticated, and stylish book that rescues Shakespeare from self-regarding criticism and delivers him safely to his readers. Kastan uses theory to move beyond theory, history to move beyond historicism; Shakespeare emerges here as interestingly as he has appeared in criticism for several decades. This is an important book that everyone who cares about Shakespeare should read.
forget beckham August 18, 2000
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a terrific book, agile, witty, canny, worthy of Comparison with Figo and Zidane rather than with that poseur Beckham). run out and buy it, cuz you'll be unable to participate in the pub Buzz without it.
 Beckham After Theory August 9, 2000
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
In contrast to the above reviewer, I would contend that Kastan's Shakespeare After Theory suffers from comparison with the early work of David Beckham in the field. Of course, the late Beckham (his "Posh" period) is derivative, messianic, and self-indulgent; simply put, he now lacks the clear focus upon the material conditions of Early Modern (oh, that loaded periodization!) textual production that Kastan has rendered de rigeur for the student of English Literature. But Beckham's often forgotten - and now, sadly, out of print - early book on the theatricality of popular sports and pastimes provides the missing link between, say, Greenblatt's performing subjects and Kastan's subjected performers.
 Well past its sell by date April 14, 2000
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
While Kastan writes very well, this book suffers both from being derivative (it pales in comparison to the work of much better critics such as Stephen Greenblatt) and out-of-date. Much of what Kastan publishes here was written and first presented in the mid-1980s. I would go elsewhere for fresher, more stimulating work on Shakespeare.
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