Infinite riches in a little room.("The Age of Shakespeare")(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 26-JUN-04

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THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE by Frank Kermode Weidenfeld, 12.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 194, ISBN 029784881X

Frank Kermode's The Age of Shakespeare is an astonishing achievement. In fewer than 200 small-format pages he discusses each of Shakespeare's works. No comments are less than telling; most are highly original. Examples of the latter include a discussion of familial and rhetorical 'doubles' in Hamlet; an account of the unvaried verse of Julius Caesar, 'as if the important thing was to make everyone sound very Roman, like senators preparing to sit for statues of themselves'; and...

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