Brook, Hall, Ninagawa, Lepage: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVIII

by Peter Holland (Editor)

Overview

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa and Robert Lepage to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472539519
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Series:	Great Shakespeareans
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	360 KB

About the Author

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.
Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and is Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and the Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK)
Introduction (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA)
1. Peter Brook (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA)
2. Peter Hall (Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
3. Yukio Ninagawa (Alexa Huang, George Washington University in Washington, D.C)
4. Robert Lepage (Margaret Jane Kidnie, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Jane Freeman, University of Toronto, Canada)

Notes
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Index