The Absent Shakespeare by Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994-12

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, 12/1/1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Fading to spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (with a few short closed tears). A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Linocut dust jacket and text illustrations by Inger Johanne Grytting. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "THE ABSENT SHAKESPEARE challenges the notion that Shakespeare is 'faceless' in his plays… In challenging the idea of a playwright invisible in his work, the book ends with a discussion of Hesiod and OEDIPUS REX, contrasting the myth available to Sophocles and Shakespeare. Building on recent textual studies of KING LEAR and HAMLET, which compare Folio and Quarto differences, Mirsky sees them not as just an opportunity to view the playwright revising toward more skillful staging,… Read More

Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 174 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. A few pen notes on the rear panel of the dustjacket. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S., 1994. Jacket has sunning and chipping to spine. Very light spotting to closed edges, small owner name to ffep, else book clean and tight.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

-Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (31 Jan 1995)-. First edition. 174 pages with index. Illustrated by linocuts. Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket a little sunned at the spine. Ask to see our other Shakespeare titles. The Absent Shakespeare. 0838635113