Adam Zucker

Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare Unlearned

Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

Beschreibung

A light-stepping, illuminating study of words and characters in Shakespeare's plays that pertain to the idea of 'stupidity', drawing on a variety of sources to explore the limits of scholarly learnedness, and the vibrancy of unlearned perspectives on obscure words and difficult art.

Autor

Adam Zucker is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has won the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy (2011) and the co-editor of essay collections Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (2015) and Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (2006). He is also co-editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780198906773
• ISBN-10: 0198906773
• Artikelnr.: 72119480