Shakespeare and Me: Great Writers, Actors and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them – and Us - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1780748477 ISBN 13 : 9781780748474

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2016

Synopsis

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Shakespeare and Me, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars and writers to share stories of their own personal relationship with Shakespeare.

We hear from Ralph Fiennes on interpreting Coriolanus for a modern filmic audience, James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare’s ideas through performance, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Brian Cox on social conflict in Shakespeare’s time and ours, Germaine Greer on the playwright’s home life, Dame Harriet Walter on the complexity of his heroines, and Sir Antony Sher on feeling at home in Shakespeare’s language. Together they provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeare’s works as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and embraced.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susannah Carson is an author and academic. She is editor of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Reasons Why We Can't Stop Reading Read Jane Austen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780748477
• ISBN 13: 9781780748474
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Éditeur: Carson Susannah
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