Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Ted Hughes — 1st Edition

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Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Ted Hughes — 1st Edition

Name: Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Ted Hughes — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
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Publication: London, Faber and Faber, 1992

Formatting: 8vo, pp. xv, 517.

Condition Report: 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.

Catalogue Note: 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 Venus and Adonis.

Copies 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.

In 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 Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, provided 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.

Book Condition: Near Fine

Book Authors: Ted Hughes

Book Publisher: Faber and Faber

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Criticism & Essays

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 532

Book Publication Year: 1992

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Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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