Bottom

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"Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare - whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish - and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision ("the eyes have it") through both Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another. In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams.". "The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Drama,  Incidental music,  Musical settings,  Philosophy,  Philosophy in literature,  Princes,  Quotations,  Scores,  Themes, motives,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, quotations,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation

People: Celia Thaew Zukofsky,  William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: Lebanon,  Tyre,  Tyre (Lebanon)