{"product_id":"willing-to-choose-volition-storytelling-in-shakespeares-major-plays-paperback","title":"Willing to Choose: Volition \u0026 Storytelling in Shakespeare's Major Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Pack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is intended for the reader and theater-goer who loves Shakespeare's plays and enjoys contemplating them in their complexity: the richness of metaphorical language, the characters' psychological depths and dimensions, the philosophical implications of the plays as organic dramatic entities that testify to the nature of human limitation and human freedom. I assume that the reader has the patience to delight in the minute details of Shakespeare's patterns of imagery as well as to admire the overall structure of the plays. What most interests me is how these plays cohere and how they can be read from different perspectives which nevertheless complement each other. Thus, I have not adopted any single critical approach, but have responded to each play's individual identity with what seem to me appropriate and fruitful interpretative points of view. Blessed in having been enfranchised by my profession to teach Shakespeare for half a century, I wish to share with my readers the humane vision I find everywhere in Shakespeare's incomparable plays - a vision empathetic to human suffering and moral aspiration, tempered by his acute awareness of human frailty, which has immeasurably enriched my own life.\" - Author's Note to the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of twenty books of his own poetry, the most recent being \u003ci\u003eElk in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eComposing Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, and five books of literary criticism, \u003cb\u003eRobert Pack\u003c\/b\u003e finds everywhere in Shakespeare's incomparable plays a vision empathetic to human suffering and moral aspiration, tempered by the Bard's acute awareness of human frailty. Currently, Robert Pack teaches in the Honors College of the University of Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.98 x 6.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71808561316093,"sku":"9780976211440","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/66s9k2Fy0a9780976211440.webp?v=1793814691","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/willing-to-choose-volition-storytelling-in-shakespeares-major-plays-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}