By Richard Bradford

ISBN-10: 111821997X

ISBN-13: 9781118219973

ISBN-10: 1118220013

ISBN-13: 9781118220016

Is Shakespeare any Good? unearths why definite literary works and authors are handled as more suitable to others, and questions the literary establishment’s standards for growing an imperium of “great” writers.

  • Enables readers to articulate and formulate their very own arguments concerning the caliber of literature – together with works that conference forbids us to dislike
  • Dismantles the claims of educational feedback – quite conception – to inform us whatever helpful approximately why we adore or take pleasure in literature
  • Challenges and shatters many longstanding ideals approximately literature and its evaluation
  • Poses severe questions about the worth of literature, and learning literature, and provides those in a full of life and entertainingly provocative manner

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