Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

I read this book in college and listened to it on this Naxos production. It is sophisticated and interesting, and I recommend it. I am going to get the Decameron production by Naxos, and I think that would be a five star production. I hope I don't get a very good spanking for not giving Fanny Hill five stars!

This is the book that opened Shakespeare up to me. In a college Shakespeare class, which I came into with a strong anti-Shakespeare bias, I found myself confused with the language, bored and indifferent with the stories and frustrated. So, I went out and picked up this book (I had read Frye's the Archetypes of Literature) and it immediately changed my outlook on the old bard. I soon noticed that much of what my professor was lecturing in class was taken from Frye's work. I had discovered the secret. This is a very readable, interesting and witty look into many of the Shakespearean plays. Frye is quite unusual for a literary critic, he's fun to read.

This book is excellent. Only two words are needed to explain its incredible value: "Green World"! Nothing more needs to be said.

I would pay to hear Emma Fielding read the dictionary. If anything is pure viagra, it is her wondrous, beautiful voice.

Frye expertly reviews and comments on over half-a-dozen of the Bard's best works. The only problem with the book is that he doesn't look at more of Shakespeare's works!