Background
Booth, Stephen Walter was born on April 20, 1933 in New York City. Son of Frank and Ruth Joan (Friedman) Booth.
(In this provocative book, first published in 1983, Stephe...)
In this provocative book, first published in 1983, Stephen Booth speculates on the essence of tragedy. He argues that the literary works we call tragedies have their value as enabling actions: dramatic tragedies can render us capable, temporarily, of enduring practical, personal experience of the fact of infinity.
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(This text is designed to review all the common elements o...)
This text is designed to review all the common elements of French grammar, both orally and in written French. To that end it is provided with numerous all-French exercises and English-to-French translations on various phases of the French language and with a set of tapes containing numerous structure drills.
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(This text is designed to review all the common elements o...)
This text is designed to review all the common elements of French grammar, both orally and in written French. To that end it is provided with numerous all-French exercises and English-to-French translations on various phases of the French language and with a set of tapes containing numerous structure drills.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0030758998/?tag=2022091-20
Booth, Stephen Walter was born on April 20, 1933 in New York City. Son of Frank and Ruth Joan (Friedman) Booth.
AB, Harvard University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964. Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1957.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Georgetown University, 1991.
He first attracted attention with his controversial 1969 essays On the Value of Hamlet and An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets, in which he reread the works in a manner considerably different from contemporary Anglo-American readings. Frank Kermode praised the former essay in the New York Review of Books in 1970 as being worth several full books of Shakespeare studies. In 1977 he published an edition with "analytic commentary" of the sonnets, again attracting both controversy and praise within the academy for his precision and bold rereadings.
In 1983 followed King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy, probably his best-known work after the study of the sonnets.
(This text is designed to review all the common elements o...)
(This text is designed to review all the common elements o...)
(In this provocative book, first published in 1983, Stephe...)
Author: An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1969, paperback, 1972, The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles, 1969, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Edited with Analytic Commentary, 1977, review edition, 1978, paperback, 1979, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition and Tragedy, 1983, (pamphlet) Liking Julius Caesar, 1991, Precous Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Chidren, and Twelfth Night, 1998. Member editorial board S.E.L., since 1978, Assays, since 1979, Mississippi Studies in English, since 1979, Shakespeare Quarterly, 1981-2005.
Member Modern Language Association (James Russell Lowell prize 1978).
Married Susan Patek, June 20, 1959. Children: Jason Michael, Mary.