"Part Connie Willis timetravel, part Douglas Adams whimsy, part Julie Schumacher academic satire, with a refreshing touch of Key Peele, Burning Shakespeare is also a cleareyed assessment of what we love and hate about Shakespeare." Sujata Iyengar, author of Shades of Difference Mythologies of Skin Color and Race in Early Modern England and Shakespeares Medical LanguageOr, "Funnier than Timon of Athens, sadder than As You Like It, Burning Shakespeare fantasizes a world in which all of Shakespeares plays come perilously close to joining the library of the lost."Paul Menzer, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Mary Baldwin University"If in some parallel universe Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman had collaborated with A.C. Bradley, they might imaginably have come up with a novel both as funny and as intellectually exciting as A.J. Hartleys Burning Shakespeare. But I doubt it."Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, StratfordUponAvonShakespeares works are being wiped from history and only a group of illassorted dead people can save them! This whimsical romp from now to Shakespeares day, via Hell, wears its learning lightly, but is as illuminating as funny. Highly recommended!Tiffany Stern Fellow of the British Academy, General Editor, Arden Shakespeare 4"Beelzebub, Belial, Shakespeare, and the academy what could go wrong? Burning Shakespeare does just what novels featuring Shakespeare fail to do, taking readers on a wild, witty,...
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"Part Connie Willis timetravel, part Douglas Adams whimsy, part Julie Schumacher academic satire, with a refreshing touch of Key Peele, Burning Shakespeare is also a cleareyed assessment of what we love and hate about Shakespeare." Sujata Iyengar, author of Shades of Difference Mythologies of Skin Color and Race in Early Modern England and Shakespeares Medical LanguageOr, "Funnier than Timon of Athens, sadder than As You Like It, Burning Shakespeare fantasizes a world in which all of Shakespeares plays come perilously close to joining the library of the lost."Paul Menzer, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Mary Baldwin University"If in some parallel universe Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman had collaborated with A.C. Bradley, they might imaginably have come up with a novel both as funny and as intellectually exciting as A.J. Hartleys Burning Shakespeare. But I doubt it."Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, StratfordUponAvonShakespeares works are being wiped from history and only a group of illassorted dead people can save them! This whimsical romp from now to Shakespeares day, via Hell, wears its learning lightly, but is as illuminating as funny. Highly recommended!Tiffany Stern Fellow of the British Academy, General Editor, Arden Shakespeare 4"Beelzebub, Belial, Shakespeare, and the academy what could go wrong? Burning Shakespeare does just what novels featuring Shakespeare fail to do, taking readers on a wild, witty,...
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