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books by A. D. Nuttall

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5 reviews
A. D. Nuttall

Yale University Press, 2008

The Brilliance of Shakespeare
In this delightful book, Shakespeare the Thinker, A. D. Nuttall seeks to defend the great playwright against those who view him as just a product of his time (a view that is a strong form of Historicism). I'm a huge fan of Stephen Greenblatt, who wrote the terrific biography Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, so I was glad that Nuttall did not disagree with the nuanced New ...

The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake
A. D. Nuttall

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

What is the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist rather than the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake.

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

1 review
A. D. Nuttall

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

The Game Of Death
Nuttall's short, 100 page book can get pretty densely academic in its prose for a general reader like me. But it's rewarding when he boils down his argument in the last 50 or so pages. He says that tragedy in literature is a "game of death" that we play in order to rehearse for the worst that can happen. So far, so good. But then Nuttall deftly demonstrates how in King Lear (Norton Critical ...

A New Mimesis

1 review
A. D. Nuttall

Routledge, 1985

A New Mimesis
Professor Nuttall enters the politically contested arena of mimesis studies and wins many points through intelligent and original thinking. Every post-modern critic should read this book. It may set a few of them straight.

Two Concepts of Allegory: A Study of Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Logic of Allegorical Expression

1 review
A. D. Nuttall

Yale University Press, 2007

Professor Nuttall
Along with Angus Fletcher, Tony Nuttall is probably one of the most original thinker-scholars one can read. Unlike many professional Shakespeareans, Professor Nuttall's range is wide and deep. I highly recommend Two Concepts of Allegory.