Emma Smith, "This Is Shakespeare"

A professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, Smith is considered one of the premier interpreters of the Bard for a new generation. Her fresh reading of twenty of his plays doesn’t use the great playwright as an oracle for solving social, political, and romantic difficulties but instead ferrets out the inconsistencies and even the flaws in his writing, using these as rich mines from which to develop new ways of understanding his legacy. Whether writing about Shakespeare imitating his rivals or about Tudor-era issues of succession and religious upheaval, Smith also finds resonance with contemporary concerns ranging from privacy to celebrity to economics. Smith will be joined in conversation by James Shapiro, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and author, most recently, of Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future. Purchase Book Here: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9... ----------------------------------------------------Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE--------------------------------------------------------------- Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter:   / politicsprose   Follow us on instagram:   / politicsprose   Like us on Facebook:   / politicsandprose   Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Produced by Tom Warren