Jonathan P. A. Sell. 2022. Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form. New York: Routledge Jonathan P. A. Sell. 2022. Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language. New York: Routledge Zenón Luis-Martínez Universidad de Huelva, Spain The refrain of an eighties’ British pop classic rhapsodized the bliss of being run into by a double-decker bus. If the image supplies a motif for the present review of Jonathan P. A. Sell’s sweeping new monograph, it is not mainly for its two-volume nature, nor for the reviewer’s pleasure and privilege, but rather for the opportunity it offers to introduce prospective readers into the weighty intellectual arsenal that Professor Sell has deployed in his mapping of the multi- levelled territories where Shakespearean dramaturgy achieves an inexplicable though familiar, transitory though enduring sublimity. Perhaps a reader’s greatest challenge when embarking upon Sell’s study is to fnd the right balance between the arresting blaze of its subject matter and the solid density of its arguments. Fortunately, striking that balance has been the author’s chief methodological aim: Sell’s judicious, insightful company in our transit along the complex machinery that resolves—and dissolves—into the Shakespearean sublime guarantees the success of his enterprise. The work’s elegant two-part structure is handsomely matched by a fawless layout: two almost identical twin volumes whose tightly parisoned titles announce the orderly discipline with which the author will impart a subject that has traditionally firted with misrule. The inner title pages of each volume disclose a parenthetical explanation, “(The First/ Second Part of An Essay on the Shakespearean Sublime),” a sort of ur- title that justly aligns Sell’s ambitious scope with the endeavors of an eminent cohort of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century essayists, critics and philosophers—Pope, Johnson, Hume, Kant, Burke, Schlegel, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt. And yet, despite Sederi 32 (2022: 164–168) https://doi.org./10.34136/sederi.2022.4