Guide to the Season 2018-2019

by David Ives (Introduction), Lyn Gardner, Marvin Carlson, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Meineck

Overview

The Guide to the Season Plays introduces you to the 2018-2019 Season at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.

The guide features a variety of scholars and writers sharing their thoughts, research and intelligent analysis. Take this guide with you wherever you go on your favorite device as you prepare to attend our productions. Or, explore the world of classic theatre wherever you would like.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161913277
Publisher:	Shakespeare Theatre Company
Publication date:	09/12/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

George Fredric Franko is Professor of Classical Studies at Hollins University, where he teaches Latin, Greek, ancient history, ancient drama, and Shakespeare and the classics.

Lyn Gardner writes about theatre for The Stage and The Independent. She is the recipient of the U.K. Theatre Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre, the 2017 Total Theatre Significant Contribution Award and a 2018 Tonic Award for theatre journalism.

Nora Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she co-specializes in Victorian literature and classic Hollywood film and serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Studies in the Novel.

Stephen Greenblatt (PhD Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of 11 books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare.

David Ives is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays, All in the Timing, and for his drama Venus in Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play.

As Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Drew Lichtenberg has worked on 40 productions over seven seasons.

Peter Meineck holds the chair of Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University. He is also Honorary Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham