Shakespeare

This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart witty deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare's protean art. His <i>Shakespeare</i> is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of the Bard.