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Description of  The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew: Essays, Memoirs and Reviews (Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Passionate, controversial and illuminating this collection contains Empson's best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his extraordinary Inaugural Lecture as Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University.