Shakespeare and Baseball by Samuel Crowl - 9780821425565

Shakespeare and BaseballReflections of a Shakespeare Professor and Detroit Tigers Fan\nAuthor(s): Samuel Crowl\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821425565, 978-0821425565\nSynopsis\nShakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playwright in the world, and baseball is Americas game. Professor Samuel Crowl, a prize-winning teacher and international scholar of Shakespeare on film, explores his life as a champion of the Bard and a fan of the Detroit Tigers. He saw his first Tigers game in the summer of [tel]Hal Newhouser beat the Chicago White Sox) and his first Shakespeare play in [tel]Alec Guinness as Richard III at Ontarios Stratford Festival) and has spent almost seventy-five years enjoying and writing about the pleasures of play that each provides.\n Shakespeare and Baseball is an unusual hybrid combining Crowls education as a Shakespe.