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"Focusing on the idea of Shakespeare as a ""bodger"" or tailor, Joel Altman performs a ""thick description"" of The Winter's Tale, revealing how Shakespeare stitches together early modern approaches to character, rhetoric, art forms, mixed dramatic genres and theatrical faith. This masterful book provides striking insights not only into one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also into his general method of play-making.--Peter G. Platt, Barnard College, USA"

Focusing on the idea of Shakespeare as a ""bodger"" or tailor, Joel Altman performs a ""thick description"" of The Winter's Tale, revealing how Shakespeare stitches together early modern approaches to character, rhetoric, art forms, mixed dramatic genres and theatrical faith. This masterful book provides striking insights not only into one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also into his general method of play-making.--Peter G. Platt, Barnard College, USA

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Joel Altman is Emeritus Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. He has most published many books and articles over the span of his career, his most recent include The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and The Development of Elizabethan Drama (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978--re-issued 2018) and The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).

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