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Book Review Kenneth Burke Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. Ed. Scott L. Newstok. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007. 368 pp. $30. Reviewed by Robert This collection of Kenneth Burke's complete writings on Shakespeare, gathered together for the first time in Scott Newstok's new edition, provides a welcome contribution to Shakespeare studies and preserves a previously endangered piece of the historical record of twentieth-century literary criticism. Newstok's "Editor's Introduction" orients the reader with admirable economy toward an encounter with Burke, summarizing the author's critical idiom and contextualizing his biography and reception as a critic who is part rhetorician, part theorist, and part dramaturg. The editorial introduction both advocates and apologizes for Burke, whose writings on Shakespeare are energetically earnest but often informal and even, at times, impishly playful. The cartoon caricature of Burke on the book's cover helps convey the spirit of engagement that the edition asks of its readers as they indulge the passionately quirky mind that Newstok aims to reveal and chronicle. The collection includes thirteen chapters and an additional "Introduction" (by Burke) entitled "Shakespeare Was What?", a previously unpublished address (delivered in 1964 at the University of Nebraska at Kearney) that doubles as a microcosmic primer
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Apr 24, 2009
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