Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

<div>One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare€s most popular plays: <I>A Midsummer Night€s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter€s Tale,</I><I> </I>and <I>The Tempest</I>.  The outgrowth of a lifetime of study and teaching, Frye€s insights will inform and delight both the expert and the first-time reader of Shakespeare.<br>“The sensibility and wisdom informing the book make it a delight.€-S. Schoenbaum, <I>New York</I><I> Times Book Review</I><br>“The most accessible and sheerly enjoyable of [Frye€s] books….The effect is that of listening to a fluent, genial conversationalist who loves Shakespeare and unabashedly celebrates him in that high aspect of criticism well called ‘appreciation.€€-Edmund Fuller, <I>Wall Street Journal</I><br>“A boon to both Shakespearean scholars and readers dipping into the Bard€s work for the first time. … Written with verve, erudition and more-than-occasional humor, this ‘summing-up€ of 50 years of scholarship will be read with pleasure, profit and gratitude by drama lovers for years to come.€-<I>Kirkus Reviews</I><br>Northrop Frye, professor of English, has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto for almost fifty years.  He is the author of numerous books, including the seminal work <I>Anatomy of Criticism</I><br></div>