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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harley Granville-Barker |
ISBN: | 0435086480 9780435086480 1854597868 9781854597861 9781854591098 1854591096 |
OCLC Number: | 1144884488 |
Notes: | Originally published 1937. |
Description: | x, 341 pages ; 21 cm |
Series Title: | Granville Barker's prefaces to Shakespeare |
Responsibility: | Harley Granville-Barker ; foreword by Richard Eyre. |
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"'I still find Granville Barker indispensable after 45 years of using his Prefaces. He is the only critic who consistently treats Shakespeare as a playmaker of living drama, rather than as written texts' Peter Hall; 'Barker offers a learned yet deeply intuitive approach to Shakespeare as a man-of-the-theatre, an act of empathy so complete as to give the illusion that Shakespeare himself has been given the opportunity to say what he was aiming for' Simon Callow; 'Granville Barker's deep and penetrating intelligence illuminates his observations and they remain permanently relevant' Peter Brook" Read more...

