当代莎士比亚研究经典之作。好评如潮:
'The best book about Shakespeare for a generation' - Philip Howard, "The Times".
'As brilliant an account of the Bard's iconic universality as you could hope to find' - Michael Billington, "Guardian".
'Absolutely dazzling - illuminates the whole man and the influence he has in our lives' - Simon Callow, "Sunday Express".
'Occupies the territory of biography, literary criticism, theatrical and social history, and a journey across its landscape is one of constant delight and illumination' - Sir Richard Eyre, "Financial Times", Books of the Year.
'The theme of this wonderfully written, diverse book is diversity itself, and the range of the essays serves only to confirm the disparate nature of Shakespeare's achievement' - Peter Ackroyd, "The Times".
'The liveliest and most intelligent general book on Shakespeare I have read for a long time' - John Gross, "Sunday Telegraph", Books of the Year.
Jonathan Bate (1958) is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism.当今莎士比亚研究最彪悍的学术领袖之一。
He was educated at Sevenoaks School, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, where he held a Harkness Fellowship. He was formerly a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University before becoming Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at University of Warwick.
He is a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and sits on the Council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
His publications include Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (1986), Shakespearean Constitutions (1989), Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus (1995), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), two influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology (1991) and The Song of the Earth (2000), and a novel based indirectly on the life of William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love. His definitive biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), as well as being short listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and the South Bank Show Award. In America it won the NAMI Book Award. The Genius of Shakespeare was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare".[1] It was reissued with a new afterword in 2008. Bate also edited Clare's Selected Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2004), and, with Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare's Complete Works for the Royal Shakespeare Company, published in April 2007 as part of the Random House Modern Library. This was the first edition since that of Nicholas Rowe in 1709 to use the First Folio as primary copy text for all the plays.
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坦白说,我刚开始接触这本书时,内心是带着一丝抗拒的,因为这种类型的作品往往意味着冗长枯燥的背景介绍。然而,这本书完全颠覆了我的预期。它在不牺牲知识密度的前提下,巧妙地将所有必要的历史背景和文化脉络,像丝线一样编织进了主要的故事线里,完全没有那种生硬的“知识灌输”感。每一段历史的侧写,都服务于当前情节的推进,使得读者在跟随人物命运起伏的同时,也自然而然地吸收了大量的背景信息。这种“润物细无声”的教学方式,是许多严肃文学作品所追求却难以企及的高度。我感觉自己像是在一个导游的带领下,穿梭于历史的长廊之中,既领略了壮丽的风景,又学习了背后的典故,整个过程体验无比顺畅和愉悦。
评分这本书的语言风格实在是太令人玩味了,它成功地在古典的韵味和现代的流畅之间找到了一种近乎完美的平衡点。你能在其中发现那些沉淀了数百年的词汇,它们被巧妙地嵌入到句子中,非但没有显得晦涩难懂,反而为文本增添了一种独特的历史厚度。同时,作者又极其擅长运用一些极富画面感的动词和精准的比喻,使得那些抽象的概念也变得触手可及。我反复阅读了其中几段关于哲思的探讨,那些句子结构的多变性,简直是一场文字的游戏。有时是简洁有力的短句,像锤子一样敲击着读者的心扉;有时又是蜿蜒曲折的长句,层层铺陈,将一个复杂的思想剖析得淋漓尽致。这种高超的文字驾驭能力,使得阅读过程充满了惊喜,仿佛每一次呼吸都能捕捉到新的语义层次,绝对是文字爱好者值得深入品咂的佳作。
评分这本书的装帧简直是一场视觉的盛宴,硬壳封面的质感细腻得让人爱不释手,那种微微泛着古旧光泽的纸张,仿佛真的能触摸到历史的纹理。我特地选了个阳光明媚的午后,窝在阳台的藤椅里翻开它,初读便被那种磅礴的气势所震慑。它的排版设计极为考究,字里行间留有的呼吸空间恰到好处,既保证了阅读的舒适度,又营造出一种庄重典雅的氛围。每一页的侧边都小心翼翼地印着一些精美的、似乎是那个时代手稿的拓印,那些细微的笔触和墨迹的晕染,无声地讲述着关于创作与时代的宏大叙事。我尤其欣赏它在细节处理上的匠心,比如扉页上的烫金工艺,低调却不失奢华,像是一把开启知识殿堂的金色钥匙。这本书本身就像是一件艺术品,它不仅仅是内容的载体,更是一种对阅读仪式感的极致推崇。放在书架上,它散发出的那种厚重感和文化气息,都足以让任何一个爱书之人感到由衷的满足。它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一份可以长久珍藏的遗产。
评分这本书的深度挖掘能力简直令人叹服,它绝非那种浮于表面的通俗读物,而是像一把精密的钻探工具,直抵事物最核心的骨架。作者似乎有着洞察人性的天赋,他毫不留情地剖析了权力、贪婪、爱与背叛这些永恒的主题,但这一切都处理得极为克制和内敛,不流于说教,而是通过角色的行动和命运的走向自然呈现。我尤其赞赏作者对待伦理困境的处理方式——他从不直接给出答案,而是将所有可能性都摆在了读者面前,迫使我们停下来审视自己的价值观。这种开放式的结局和多义性的探讨,极大地激发了我的批判性思维。读完合上书本的时候,我发现自己对现实生活中的一些现象产生了全新的理解和更深层次的反思,这才是真正有价值的书籍所能带来的回馈。
评分读完第一章后,我立刻产生了一种强烈的冲动,想要去查阅大量的背景资料,因为它所构建的世界观之复杂精妙,远超我的想象。作者对于叙事节奏的把控,简直如同大师级的指挥家在掌控一场交响乐的起伏跌宕。高潮部分堆叠的张力让人几乎窒息,而随后的转折又处理得干净利落,毫无拖泥带水之感,反而留下了足够的时间供人回味那错综复杂的情感纠葛。书中描绘的那些场景,无论是宏大的战争场面,还是细腻的闺房密语,都栩栩如生地跃然纸上,我甚至能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土味和香料味。更令人称奇的是,作者笔下的人物形象立体得可怕,他们不是非黑即白的符号,而是充满了人性固有的矛盾与挣扎,他们的选择既合乎情理又让人心碎,这种真实的代入感极大地提升了阅读体验。这种层层递进的叙事结构,让读者如同被卷入了一个巨大的漩涡,欲罢不能,直到最后一页,仍旧意犹未尽。
评分这个封面真难看... 读完:但内容是真赞!感谢CX学姐的博文间接推荐!(星星眼
评分这个封面真难看... 读完:但内容是真赞!感谢CX学姐的博文间接推荐!(星星眼
评分假期被蛇咬,bed-readen,推荐前半部。
评分假期被蛇咬,bed-readen,推荐前半部。
评分这个封面真难看... 读完:但内容是真赞!感谢CX学姐的博文间接推荐!(星星眼
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