Theodore B. Leinwand is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He has written books about early modern theater and finance and Jacobean city comedy. This essay reappears in his forthcoming book The Great William: Writers Reading Shakespeare (Chicago, 2016).
Nonfiction
Spring 2002
On Sitting down to Read Shakespeare Once Again
One can imagine a typology of the pleasures of reading—or of the readers of pleasure …—Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text 63 Of course, many of us do not […]