As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the ...(展开全部)

"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."―Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche―and psychoses―of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布拉特(Stephen Greenblatt)，著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰·科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》《莎士比亚的自由》《亚当夏娃浮沉录》（以上三部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、《俗世威尔》（Will in the World）等知名作品。 唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，译有奥威尔《一九八四》、毛姆《在中国屏风上》、纳博科夫《独抒己见》、菲茨杰拉德《夜色温柔》、《2081：冯内古特短篇小说全集》、格林布拉特《莎士比亚的自由》《大转向》等。

奥登的评论，可同时参考他的The Dyer's hand中的"The Shakesperian City”部分。他的评论比较重视基督教心理学对莎士比亚的影响。他对《威尼斯商人》的讨论相当有意思。

阿兰·瑞安（Alan Ryan），政治学家、政治评论家、英国国家学术院院士。 他生于1940年，1988年开始任美国普林斯顿大学政治学教授，1996年至2009年间，担任牛津大学新学院（New College, Oxford University）院长。之后，他还陆续执 教于普林斯顿大学政治学系和斯坦福大学哲学系，2015年退休。 瑞安的研究领域非常广泛，跨越政治理论、哲学和法学，专攻自由主义政治理论，并且是斯图尔特·穆勒、约翰·杜威思想研究方面的权威。同时，瑞安也是一个关心公共事务的学者，针对世界的政治时事发表过大量的讲座与评论，并长期为《纽约书评》《伦敦书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰写书评和时事评论。 林华（译者），联合国高级翻译，在联合国总部工作30余年，现为同声传译中文组负责人。主要译著、合译著包括《论中国》《世界秩序》《从黎明到衰落》《战争史...(展开全部)

Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics an...(展开全部)

Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics an...(展开全部)

"No-one can make us love love as much as Shakespeare, and no-one can make us despair of it as effectively as he does". William Shakespeare is the only classical author to remain widely popular - not only in America but throughout the world - and Allan Bloom argues that this is because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature. Unlike the Romantics and other modern...(展开全部)

This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemina...(展开全部)

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrica...(展开全部)