Modern Library Chronicles: The Age of Shakespeare (Series #15) (Paperback)

from Sandydog1

Concise, academic, dry.

from jasonlf

An excellent short book on Shakespeare and his world by noted critic Frank Kermode (who died earlier this week). It provides background on Shakespeare's life, the theater in Shakespeare's time, and a brief overview of many of his plays -- fit into the context of his artistic development and exter...

from nosajeel

An excellent short book on Shakespeare and his world by noted critic Frank Kermode (who died earlier this week). It provides background on Shakespeare's life, the theater in Shakespeare's time, and a brief overview of many of his plays -- fit into the context of his artistic development and exter...

from kant1066

I've found the Modern Library Chronicles books to be somewhat of a mixed bag, as another reviewer aptly put it. Hans Kung's "The Catholic Church: A Short History" and Stephen Kotkin's "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment," which I've recently also reviewed, were...