{"product_id":"9780226367699","title":"The Great William: Writers Reading Shakespeare","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Great William\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes—wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation of remarkable intellectual and emotional encounters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Theodore Leinwand builds impressively detailed accounts of these writers’ experiences through their marginalia, lectures, letters, journals, and reading notes. We learn why Woolf associated reading Shakespeare with her brother Thoby, and what Ginsberg meant when referring to the \u003ci\u003emouth feel\u003c\/i\u003e of Shakespeare’s verse. From Hughes’s attempts to find a “skeleton key” to all of Shakespeare’s plays to Berryman’s tormented efforts to edit \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, Leinwand reveals the palpable energy and conviction with which these seven writers engaged with Shakespeare, their moments of utter self-confidence and profound vexation. In uncovering these intense public and private reactions, \u003ci\u003eThe Great William\u003c\/i\u003e connects major writers’ hitherto unremarked scenes of reading Shakespeare with our own.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120203841776,"sku":"9780226367699","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226367699_p0.jpg?v=1769911835","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226367699","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}