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Like the repurposed New Comedy of Plautus and Terence or what Ruth Nevo identified as the new comedy of Shakespeare's early play-scripts, Simon Palfrey and Emma Smith serve notice in _Shakespeare's Dead_ of a paradigm shift, particularly in scholarship and reader and audience perception. Without losing even their general readers to the opacity of academic discourse, and all the while writing a vivacious and compelling letterpress, Palfrey and Smith open meaning in Shakespeare that dazzles, sparkles, and startles. General readers emerge with new appreciations of Shakespeare's technique, character, and reception. More stunningly, seasoned scholars leave the study having unearthed new significations for apparently tireless signs, reanimating even the bones of the long deceased. _Shakespeare's Dead_ is a perspective changer, altering both our view of the bard and of the scholarship and scholarly modes that preserve him. Thank you Bodleian and thank you Professors Palfrey and Smith. We owe you, all three, a considerable debt of gratitude.Read full review
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