Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries <i>Thomas Mann and Shakespeare</i> is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating if sometimes disturbing connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors pairing for instance <i>Der Zauberberg</i> with <i>The Tempest</i> <i>Der Tod in Venedig</i> with <i>The Merchant of Venice</i> <i>Tonio Kröger</i> with <i>Othello</i> and <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> with <i>Doktor Faustus</i>. Showing how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity irony art desire authorship and religion <i>Thomas Mann and Shakespeare</i> challenges the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies.