A Fury in the Words Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare''s Venice

"A Fury in the Words shows Berger's sophisticated conceptual framework and intensive close readings in their most lucid, accessible, and human form. Berger's analysis takes us slowly, step by step, deep into the inner logic of the characters' language and helps us to make rigorous sense of the psychological motivation their words imply." Peter Erickson, Williams College "The energy, penetration, and inventiveness of Berger's thought in this book are astonishing. Embarrasment has rarely seemed so dangerous a thing. By myriad directions and indirections he leads the reader back into the surprise and the strangeness of the Venetian plays, and of Shakespeare's mind at large. A masterwork." Kenneth Gross, author of Shylock Is Shakespeare and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life