The dance of happy book acquisition, I does it.

[truepenny]

This is a PSA and also a gloat: Stephen Booth's King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy is now available from the most excellent people at Cybereditions. How do I know this? Because I HAVE A COPY. I am not clutching it in my grubby little paws even as we speak because I have to type, but otherwise I totally would be.

Despite its unwieldy title, KLMIT is my favorite book of literary criticism EVER. It radically changed the way I thought about plays and narrative, and I am incapable of talking about King Lear (as my friends know to their chagrin) without citing it. It is ALL OVER my dissertation. It is also READABLE (which, sadly, one cannot always say about books of literary criticism) and conveys, along with the intellectual fascination, the joie de vivre that the best Shakespeareans bring to discussions of Shakespeare. I have been trying to find a copy to love, hug, squeeze, and call George for probably fifteen years.

In conclusion, GLOAT.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats on the successful completion of a quest!

[saoba.livejournal.com]

::Iz jellus::

Tracking down the wily book in its lair is a mighty feat!

[kitgordon.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I love his book on the sonnets, but haven't read this. I did just check and the U of MN library has a copy; since I work there I have access. Ah, yes, readable literary criticism: certainly a rare thing when I was in grad school (1975-79); that's part of the reason I "dropped out" just before beginning my dissertation. I did write one later, but for my own pleasure (and every once in a while the PhD letter impress someone--usually when I write a letter or recommendation for one of my undergrad advisees).

[heresluck]

Yay!

Also:

I am incapable of talking about King Lear (as my friends know to their chagrin) without citing it.

WORD. Though it's not so much chagrin as amusement. Hee.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

Cool! I will check it out. Always glad to find something readable.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I hope it lives up to the hard sell. :)