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Article: Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. By MICHAEL TAYLOR. (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. x+ 278 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-19-871185-9 (pbk 0-19-871184-0).
An estimated six billion words, Michael Taylor reports (p. 87), have been written about Shakespeare. If ever there was a Herculean task of synthesis, Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century, surely, is it.
Taylor's volume offers a chronological survey of last century's principal critical movements. The book is the latest offering in the excellent Oxford Shakespeare Topics series, and like the other ...