The upstart crow still soars: A Companion to Shakespeare's Works Volume One: The Tragedies FIRST EDITION

Shakespeare, as Peter Holbrook reminds us in his engaging "Class X: Shakespeare, class and the comedies" (in volume three of this collection), was no academic. If his lack of university education made him an "upstart crow" to his rival-- graduate-- playwrights during his lifetime...

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Published in:The Times higher education supplement 2006 (1,744), p.XXIII
Format: Review
Language:English
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Summary:Shakespeare, as Peter Holbrook reminds us in his engaging "Class X: Shakespeare, class and the comedies" (in volume three of this collection), was no academic. If his lack of university education made him an "upstart crow" to his rival-- graduate-- playwrights during his lifetime, the academic industry that now rests on Shakespeare's name indicates a reversal of fortune as extraordinary as any of the joyfully improbable endings of his comedies.
ISSN:0049-3929