Shakespeare's Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers

by Peter Holbrook (Editor), Paul Edmondson (Editor)

Overview

We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage and on the screen, in poetry, fiction, music and dance, as well as in cultural and intellectual life. A series of concise introductory essays are here combined with personal reflections by prominent contemporary practitioners of the arts. At once a celebration and a critical response, the book explores Shakespeare as a global cultural figure who continues to engage artists, audiences and readers of all kinds.

Includes contributions from: John Ashbery, Shaul Bassi, Simon Russell Beale, Sally Beamish, David Bintley, Michael Bogdanov, Kenneth Branagh, Debra Ann Byrd, John Caird, Antoni Cimolino, Wendy Cope, Gregory Doran, Margaret Drabble, Dominic Dromgoole, Ellen Geer, Michael Holroyd, Gordon Kerry, John Kinsella, Juan Carlos Liberti, Lachlan Mackinnon, David Malouf, Javier Marías, Yukio Ninagawa, Janet Suzman, Salley Vickers, Rowan Williams, Lisa Wolpe, Greg Wyatt.
All proceeds from the sale of this volume will be donated to the International Shakespeare Association, to support the study and appreciation of Shakespeare around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474234504
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Chair of the International Shakespeare Association.
Paul Edmondson is is Head of Research and Knowledge for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK and and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival.
Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). He is the author of Shakespeare's Individualism (2010) and Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare (1994), and co-editor, with David Bevington, of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (1998).
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and a priest in The Church of England.

Table of Contents

Foreword Stanley Wells
Poem: Torn from Shakespeare's Journal Roger Pringle

Introduction: Great Creating Shakespeare Paul Edmondson and Peter Holbrook

Part One: Essays
Shakespeare and the Theatre Paul Prescott
Shakespeare and Poetry Sukanta Chaudhuri
Shakespeare and Music Tom Bishop
Shakespeare and Dance David Fuller
Shakespeare and Opera Penny Gay
Shakespeare and the Novel Graham Holderness
Shakespeare and Film and Television Russell Jackson

Part Two: Further Reflections
John Ashbery – Shaul Bassi – Simon Russell Beale – Sally Beamish – David Bintley – Michael Bogdanov – Kenneth Branagh – Debra Ann Byrd – John Caird – Antoni Cimolino – Wendy Cope – Gregory Doran – Margaret Drabble – Dominic Dromgoole – Ellen Geer – Michael Holroyd – Gordon Kerry – John Kinsella – Juan Carlos Liberti – Lachlan Mackinnon – David Malouf – Javier Marías – Yukio Ninagawa – Janet Suzman – Salley Vickers – Rowan Williams – Lisa Wolpe – Greg Wyatt

Shakespeare's Legacy of Storytelling Indira Ghose

Poem: William Shakespeare: 1616-2016 Paul Edmondson

Index

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent example of the kind of insight, and pleasure, that can be generated when scholars and artists think together." - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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