The Genius of Shakespeare

Resumen del libro

Reissued with a new afterword by Professor Bate


Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius?


The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life and afterlife of the greatest English poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world's leading Shakespearean scholars, deftly shows how the legend of Shakespeare's genius was created and sustained, and how it has become a truly global phenomenon.