Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare

Edited by Scott L. Newstok Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-002-1 (paperback, $32.00); 978-1-60235-003-8 (cloth, $65.00); 978-1-60235-004-5 (PDF, $19.99); 978-1-64317-003-9 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2007 by Parlor Press. 368 pages, with introduction, bibliography, notes, and index Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished lectures and notes, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke. Burke’s interpretations of Shakespeare have influenced important lines of contemporary scholarship; playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations; and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections of what makes a play function. Burke’s intellectual project continually engaged with Shakespeare’s works, and Burke’s writings on Shakespeare, in turn, have had an immense impact on genera