Shakespeare Now is a series of short books of truly vital literaryscholarship each with its own distinctive form. Shakespeare Now recapturesthe excitement of Sh... » 

Shakespeare Now is a series of short books of truly vital literaryscholarship each with its own distinctive form. Shakespeare Now recapturesthe excitement of Shakespeare it doesnt assume we know him already or thatwe know the best methods for approaching his plays. Shakespeare Now is a newgeneration of critics unafraid of risk on a series of intellectualadventures. Above all it is a new Shakespeare freshly present in eachvolume. Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic thinking that happens in theliving moment of its performance in quickly passing process. This book offersa model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy ofdramatic thinking as embodied above all in Shakespeares working method.Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigmof fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurologicalexperiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of thehardwiring of the human brain and the sheer sudden electricity of itssynaptic development. «