Marjorie Garber
Auteur de Shakespeare after All
A propos de l'auteur
Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Her many books include Loaded Words (Fordham); Symptoms of Culture; Quotation Marks; Shakespeare After All; Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety; and The Use afficher plus and Abuse of Literature. afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Jodi Hilton, for the New York Times
Œuvres de Marjorie Garber
Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (Culture Work) (1995) 24 exemplaires
The Turn to Ethics (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard) (2000) — Directeur de publication — 20 exemplaires
One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and… (1999) — Directeur de publication — 17 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
La Nonne Alferez, suivi de Une histoire sans fin (1829) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 347 exemplaires
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection (2016) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama XXII (1979) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Garber, Marjorie
- Date de naissance
- 1944-06-11
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA - Études
- Yale University (M.Phil|1969|Ph.D.|1969)
Swarthmore College (B.A.|1966) - Professions
- literature professor
- Relations
- Johnson, Barbara (partner)
- Organisations
- Harvard University
Haverford College
Yale University - Prix et distinctions
- American Philosophical Society (2012)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 2,559
- Popularité
- #10,035
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 112
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 4
In terms of accessibility for a general reader, Garber gives us a neat precis of Shakespeare's life and times, followed by analyses of all the plays in the canon. No play misses out, and all are treated fairly. At the same time, this is not an "introduction to Shakespeare", no matter what the blurb may try to sell you. All of the chapters assume at least some familiarity with the play in question, or are obscure enough about plot that you'd need to have some detail to begin with. This is not an account of the play's sources, history, or fate on the stage and screen; it's a popular academic treatise. With that said, if you're building up an amateur's Shakespeare library, this is an interesting read. What may be frustrating is an inevitability: there is so much to talk about with each play that, like most books of "essays", Garber tends to pick a few points about each play and then discuss them. This is not anything like a comprehensive overview (after all, most chapters are about 30 pages), but it tackles some of the key questions academics and directors ask about each work.
For the academic reader, I'm not sure how I feel. It seems as if Garber got the commission for the book by promising a general introduction, but she can't quite keep her intelligence at bay. And, hey, I'm not complaining; her insights are valid and well-written. Unlike most Shakespeare writers, I almost never feel as if she's wandering down a rabbit-hole of philosophical ramblings. No, Garber's analyses are - although decidedly deskbound - certainly drawn from real examination of the plays in the context of William Shakespeare's time. There are a few niggles depending on your taste (for me, I dislike that old-school scholar thing of describing a character using dashes, e.g. "Lear is her father-king"), but each to their own.
The challenge is that I'm not sure if the book unites the two worlds very well. Some of the chapters are quite high-minded, and reveal little to the general reader about the play. At the same time, there were very few surprises in the book for me (and thus, I'd assume, even fewer for the full-time Shakespeare academic). It doesn't seem as if Garber is really adding to the hefty discussion on the Bard, but nor is she a Richard Dawkins, able to illuminate a fascinating-but-niche world for the general public.
I should note this is a positive review, indeed a 5-star review (well, 4.6) - in part because I admire Garber's writing, her intelligence, and her views, and in part because as a Shakespeare lover, I was engaged on every single damn page. I heartily recommend this book to people in an "in-between" stage of Shakespeare scholarship, but I'd champion the great populists like Stephen Greenblatt and Stanley Wells for those looking to get their head around the plays in an intellectual-but-understandable way.… (plus d'informations)