How Shakespeare Changed Everything

Name: How Shakespeare Changed Everything
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ISBN: 9780061965548

ISBN-10: 0061965545

ISBN-13: 9780061965548

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stephen Marche

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Esquire columnist Stephen Marche gives an expansive and exciting look at William Shakespeare’s pervasive influence on every aspect of modern culture—showing us how we can find Shakespeare even where we least expect him. In the spirit of Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Marche reveals how Shakespeare’s influence is everywhere—from politics to psychotherapy, broadway to botany, emo teenagers to outrageous baby names, even zoology (did you know it’s the Bard who is responsible for the starlings terrorizing New York City’s Central Park?). Fans of literary trivia and readers of Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World and Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as Stage will be…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English