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Literary Criticism Shakespeare

Shakespeare Lied

by (author) Sky Gilbert

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Category
Shakespeare
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771839037
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $21.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771839044
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $13.95

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Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert’s second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places ‘the bard’ at the centre of present day debates over ‘political correctness.’ James Baldwin said Shakespeare’s goal was “to defeat all labels and complicate all battles by insisting on the human riddle.” Gilbert asserts Shakespeare is not just another dead irrelevant white guy, but that he— in the tradition of the Greek rhetorician Gorgias, and the scandalous, pornographic poet Ovid — was a magnificent, and quite intentional, liar. Shakespeare believed the purpose of art was not to teach, but instead to help us transcend traditional notions of truth.

About the author

Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (North Americaâ??s largest gay and lesbian theatre) for 18 years. His hit plays include The Dressing Gown, Drag Queens on Trial, Play Murder, The Emotionalists, and the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning The Whoreâ??s Revenge. His first three novels: Guilty (1998), St. Stephenâ??s, (1999) and I Am Kasper Klotz (2001) were critically acclaimed. ECW Press published Skyâ??s first collection of poetry, Digressions of a Naked Party Girl, in 1998, and his theatre memoir, Ejaculations from the Charm Factory, in 2000. His second book of collected poems, Temptations for a Juvenile Delinquent, was published by ECW in 2003. He was recently the recipient of the Margo Bindhardt Award (from the Toronto Arts Foundation), the Silver Ticket Award (from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts), and the ReLit Award (for his fourth novel, An English Gentleman), and also recently received a PhD from the University of Toronto. By day, Sky holds a University Research Chair in Drama and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.

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Editorial Reviews

Provocative, intelligent reading for literary scholars and Shakespeare aficionados.

Kirkus Reviews

I think the main ideas are valid and important—Shakespeare's refusal of didacticism, the importance of Ovid, and the idea that he's an essentially comic writer.

Alexander Leggatt, author of Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy

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