{"product_id":"all-the-worlds-a-grave-isbn-9780452289864","title":"All the World's a Grave","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn epic tragedy of love, war, murder, and madness, plucked from the pages of Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAll the World’s a Grave\u003c\/i\u003e, John Reed reconstructs the works of William Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeare’s, but the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prince Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear. Having captured Juliet as his bride—by reckless war—he returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Enter Iago, who persuades Hamlet that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo. As the Prince goes mad with jealousy, King Lear mounts his army. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This play promises to be the most provocative and entertaining work to be added to the Shakespeare canon since Tom Stoppard’s \u003ci\u003eRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e.“What a dramatic re-imagination is herein offered us!”—\u003cb\u003eRichard Foreman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The literary Trick of the Year!”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A shrewd, gutsy remix that brings the conscience of Shakespeare to our troubled time.”—\u003cb\u003eSpalding Gray \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An inspired bit of bricolage... fascinating and entertaining. Reed clearly loves the Bard. His pastiche contains many of Shakespeare’s best passages, which are always a delight to reread. More impressive, though, Reed fashions from this familiar material a story containing enough surprises to delight even those well versed in the Bard.”—\u003cb\u003eJack Helbig, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “What's destabilizing—and often wildly comical—is not just the rude mash-up of characters and settings violently plucked from their canonical sources but the way in which the power of Shakespeare's language flickers uneasily, surging and hissing and fizzing out only to revive and fade again as the words play against their new contexts.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, Favorite Books of 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Reed's performance (classical post-Modernism, I guess you could call it) turned out to be a fabulously imaginative reinvention of existing Shakespearean plays into a completely new one, like a chemistry experiment re-linking polymers into new fabric… wonderfully clear, sophisticated fun.”—\u003cb\u003eAllan Jalon, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Reed caramelizes the Bard’s plays into a great and terrifying world... a dizzying feat of writing and scholarship, and uncannily contemporary in its brew of constant trouble.”—\u003cb\u003eLynne Tillman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Reed has brought music's remix culture to literature with stunning results.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Gutowski, \u003ci\u003elargehearted boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Alerted the world to a timbre of postmodern genius never before seen in American letters.”—\u003cb\u003eRami Shamir, \u003ci\u003eEvergreen Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A wicked illusionist.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This send-up of the bard is both new yet familiar; by using a literary form of montage, Reed plays with our understanding of some of the best known characters from Shakespeare's oeuvre and creates a work that is eerie in its timeliness.”—\u003cb\u003eFinn Harvor, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Reed\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eA Still Small Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSnowball's Chance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll The World's A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTales of Woe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFree Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a two-term member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and a professor of creative writing at the New School.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302863196389,"sku":"NP9780452289864","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452289864.jpg?v=1767721310","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/all-the-worlds-a-grave-isbn-9780452289864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}