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This book has been bought by about 100,000 non-, anti-, and even pro-Shakespearean scholars. It is now reprinted because both the publisher and the author have heard that (1) world population is well over 3,000,000,000 (including astronauts), and (2) there is a population explosion. The Table of Contents lists Shakespeare's life and theater, six plays—Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello—and the Sonnets. Nevertheless, the Bard will survive, as have all known readers, cliches about deaths from laughing to the contrary notwithstanding. The book has a subtitle supplied by the author for the benefit (it is only fair to assume) of his readers: "In which Shakespeare's best-known plays are presented in a new light, the old light having blown a fuse, together with introductions, questions, appendices, and other critical apparatus intended to contribute to a clearer misunderstanding of the subject." |
