The Strengths Of Shakespeare's Shrew: Essays, Memoirs And Reviews (Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Passionate, controversial and illuminating ?this collection contains Empson's best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his extraordinary Inaugural Lecture as Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University.

• • Author: William Empson
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Dec 17, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 272 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 147424758X
• • ISBN-13: 9781474247580