Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : Something Rich and Strange

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, "Thomas Mann and Shakespeare" is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, "Der Zauberberg" with "The Tempest", "Der Tod in Venedig" with "The Merchant of Venice", "Tonio Kröger" with "Othello" and "Love's Labour's Lost" with "Doktor Faustus". Showing how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion, "Thomas Mann and Shakespeare" challenges the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies. [Publisher's Text]

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