Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those
figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,
understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and
internationally.
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of
James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett to the afterlife and
reception of Shakespeare and his works.Each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure
covered and of that figure on the understanding, interpretation and
appreciation of Shakespeare, providing a sketch of its subject's intellectual
and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context.