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Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling SHAKESPEARE'S
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General Editors' Preface

Preface

1. Reclaiming Shakespeare's Universality

2. 'Prophecies / Of This Our Time'
3. 'This Wide and Universal Theatre'
4. 'And Nothing Brings Me All Things'
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“[Ryan] argues powerfully against the 'arid antiquarianism' of historicist scholarship, and
offers instead a Shakespeare always out of sync with his own time and thus able to
transcend it ... [A] highly readable book.” – Around the Globe

“[This] cogent and passionate appropriation of “the idea of Shakespeare's timeless

universality” is a critical tour de force that draws on concepts that have long animated
Ryan's work ... [A] riveting, beautifully argued, and important book.” – Renaissance
Quarterly

“This daring book is a recent addition to the Bloomsbury/Arden series, Shakespeare

NOW! … [which] strives to capture the “excitement, audacity and surprise” of
Shakespeare with short books that are “imaginative and provocative.” Kiernan Ryan's
Shakespeare's Universality is both of these. Ryan works diligently to redeem
Shakespeare's universality from conservative essentialism and recast it in the light of
visionary egalitarian change. This egalitarian vision, Ryan contends, makes the plays
genuinely universal. Ryan's premise is that Shakespeare's plays reveal his “profound
commitment” to the “potential of all human beings to live according to principles of
freedom, equality and justice”.” – Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

“This is a provocative and fascinating “brief polemic” (p. xvi) whose lean and agile
argument addresses the difficult topic of why and in what ways Shakespeare has
maintained such a wide and universal appeal through a period of some four hundred
years.” – Memoria di Shakespeare

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