163:. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1968 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1970-71. In 1991, Georgetown University gave him an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. He received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1995.
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was well-received, described as a "heroic enterprise" and "something of a miracle." Paul Alpers, a pre-eminent scholar of the
English Renaissance said that Booth's close readings are the "equivalent of a scientific breakthrough." G. F. Waller, of the
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Shakespearean criticism... is a work of first-rate importance, hopefully a precursor of a long-needed revolution in our understanding of reading Shakespeare."
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explores "what is it we value literature for. And what is it in the works we value most highly that makes us value them above others like them." These questions are central to his literary analysis.
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Holinshed's Chronicles: An Account of Its Inception, Purposes, Contributors, Contents, Publication, Revision, and Influence on William Shakespeare.
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Reinterpretations of
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Kermode, Frank (November 5, 1970). "A New Era in
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Teaching Literature: A Collection of Essays on Theory and Practice
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In 1977 he published an edition with "analytic commentary" of the
470:"Shakespeare's Language and the Language of Shakespeare's Time."
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Shakespearean Illuminations: Essays in Honor of Marvin Rosenberg
452:"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time and All Others."
499:"The Physics of Hamlet’s ‘Rogue and Peasant Slave’ Speech" in
344:"Milton's 'How Soon Hath Time': A Colossus in a Cherrystone."
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Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen
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The Shakespeare Plays: A Study Guide for the Second Season.
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Shakespeare, William (2009), Tucker, Thomas George (ed.),
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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage and Page
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Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello
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319:"Speculations on Doubling in Shakespeare’s Plays," in
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Shakespeare's Sonnets, Edited with Analytic Commentary
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Shakespeare's Sonnets, Edited with Analytic Commentary
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Edited with Analytic Commentary
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Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage,
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405:Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New Contexts
364:"The Shakespearean Actor as Kamikaze Pilot."
312:"Shakespeare in the San Francisco Bay Area."
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213:King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
187:in 1970 as being worth several full books of
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247:. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969 .
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337:"Exit Pursued by a Gentleman Born" in
321:Shakespeare: The Theatrical Dimension.
288:"Shakespeare in California and Utah."
263:"Shakespeare in California, 1974-75."
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403:"Close Reading without Readings" in
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492:"On the Aesthetics of Acting," in
330:and the Aesthetics of Failure" in
250:"A Sullied, Sallied, Solid Text."
172:An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets.
145:University of California, Berkeley
69:University of California, Berkeley
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253:The New York Review of Books
237:"On the Value of Hamlet" in
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361:XIX, nos.1-2 (1984): 68-78.
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267:27, no. 1 (1976): 94-108.
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890:STEPHEN., BOOTH (2021).
787:New York Review of Books
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517:"On the Eventfulness of
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185:New York Review of Books
783:"'Full to Overflowing'"
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277:"Syntax as Rhetoric in
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181:On the Value of Hamlet
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328:Henry IV, Part Two
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