{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-goddess-of-complete-being-ted-hughes-1st-edition","title":"Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Ted Hughes — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Faber and Faber, 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. xv, 517.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Near Fine. The navy cloth binding is remarkably tight and square, completely free of edge rubbing, with the gilt tooling on the spine remaining striking and unoxidised. The text block is firm and clean, showing only the most negligible dust-dulling to the top edge, while the pages within are crisp, bright, and free of foxing or internal markings. The original dust jacket is exceptionally sharp, unclipped, and exhibits only the faintest signs of shelf-wear along the top extremities, retaining its vibrant gloss without any fading or tears. Overall, it is a highly presentable and well-preserved copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This is a true first edition, first printing of Hughes’s extensive critical work. The title page features a striking woodcut decoration based on the illustration found in the first edition of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopies preserving this level of crispness, particularly without heavy sun-fading to the dust jacket or prominent reading wear to the heavy text block, remain highly desirable for collectors of Hughes’s prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this critical magnum opus, Ted Hughes approaches the Complete Works of Shakespeare not merely as a collection of disparate plays, but as a single, evolving organism. Hughes argues that the two major religious myths of the archaic world, explored by Shakespeare in his early narrative poems \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Lucrece, \u003c\/i\u003eprovided the foundational template for every subsequent play he wrote. Bringing a poet's erudition to a formidable scholar's task, Hughes maps out the complex, interlocking mythologies that fueled Shakespeare's creative imagination, offering a radical and dazzling reinterpretation of his art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54577224909139,"sku":"5060","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260809_195254.jpg?v=1786618764","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-goddess-of-complete-being-ted-hughes-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}