Free Will - Couverture souple

Rhenisch, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1553800133 ISBN 13 : 9781553800132

Editeur : Ronsdale Press, 2004

Synopsis

Harold Rhenisch's first artistic love was the theatre. Twenty-eight years after first playing Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive work fusing drama, poetry and consummate clowning. These poems are onstage, under the lights, dressed in greasepaint and tights. Some of them are vaudeville acts, others are new stagings of Shakespeare's plays, scripts for Punch and Judy puppet theatre, stand-up comedies, while others include versions of Shakespeare's sonnets set on prime time television. Hamlet is being written by 10,000 monkeys locked in a room, and a review of Macbeth is played in the City of Fools. Settings range from the London Blitz, to Chernobyl and the Cariboo, and from Berlin in 1933 to the Globe Theatre in London, where the actors and their roles change places and are faced, at last, with the choice of free will. In these alternately satiric and elegiac poems, crossing the line between dreaming and waking, Rhenisch gives us the world as a tragi-comic theatre in a provocative vision of human intelligence and transformation. Along the way, Rhenisch teases truth, recasts Shakespeare's major tragedies so they focus on their women, and puts on and takes off masks, always with the goal of freeing Will Shakespeare and releasing the passion of the poetic and dramatic traditions from the cloak of habit. This is Rhenisch the trickster at his best, in poems that both renew the lyrical and satiric traditions, and move them into a new sense of myth and light-footed irony.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Harold Rhenisch lives in 150 Mile House, BC. He won the Confederation Poetry Prize, 1991, and the Arc Poem of the Year Award and the Critic's Desk Award for best long poetry review, 2003. He has been a five-time runner-up in the CBC/Tilden/Saturday Night Literary Contest and won the BC & Yukon Community Newspapers Association Award for Best Arts and Culture Writing, 1996. His non-fiction book Tom Thomson's Shack was shortlisted for two BC Book Prizes in 2000. Please visit www.haroldrhenisch.wordpress.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ronsdale Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1553800133
• ISBN 13: 9781553800132
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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