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An edition of Me and Shakespeare (2002)

Me and Shakespeare

adventures with the Bard

1st ed.
  • 1 Want to read

"In the twilight of a successful career as a book editor, Herman Gollob attended a superb Broadway production of Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes. The experience proved so galvanizing that it ignited a latent passion for literary scholarship and for all things Shakespearean.

Shedding the drudgery of fixing halt and lame manuscripts, Gollob engaged in a fever of self-education via a vast array of books, videotapes, performances, and lectures - becoming, as he put it, "an old man made mad by love of Shakespeare." In short order, he became so well versed that he began teaching a popular Shakespeare course for seniors at a small local college in New Jersey. He then made a visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.: sought out encounters with great actors and directors - including Olympia Dukakis, Michael Kahn, David Suchet, John Barton, and Cicely Berry; took a summer course on Shakespeare at Oxford; and made a pilgrimage to the Globe Theatre in London to see, of course, Hamlet.

This late-blooming Bardomania even enriched the growth of his Jewish identity, resulting in a uniquely Hebraic theory about King Lear.".

"In relating this tale of an autodidact's progress, Gollob interweaves his rich family history, personal experience, and past meetings with the great and notorious, including Orson Welles, James Jones, Lee Marvin, Frank Sinatra, Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Dan Jenkins, Willie Morris, and a host of others. Like Great Books by David Denby, Me and Shakespeare is a memoir that attests to the lifelong power of literature to enrich, enlarge, and exalt."--BOOK JACKET.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
341

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Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard
September 9, 2003, Anchor
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Cover of: Me and Shakespeare
Me and Shakespeare: adventures with the Bard
2002, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
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Me and Shakespeare: adventures with the Bard
2002, Doubleday
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Dewey Decimal Class
822.3/3
Library of Congress
PR2972.G65 A3 2002

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Pagination
341 p. ;
Number of pages
341

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OL24767182M
Internet Archive
meshakespeareadv00goll
ISBN 10
0385498179
LCCN
2001053799
OCLC/WorldCat
48100333
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