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
A unique celebration of Shakespeare’s extraordinary four hundred year impact on the performing, written and visual Arts.
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.
Here, in a book Stanley Wells (in his foreword) calls “a book of
enthusiasms,” readers will find little academic lucubration or
sententious pomp. This book’s contributors exert themselves largely
in praise, and the qualities of the individual writers lend
imaginative power to the task. Readers will find new insights in
one or more of the seven essays that make up part 1, the titles of
which all begin “Shakespeare and.” These essays deal with theater,
poetry, music, dance, opera, the novel, and film and television.
This reviewer found the essay on music of particular interest.
These chapters are followed a section of testimonials from 27
distinguished individuals who feel indebted to Shakespeare,
including John Ashbery, Kenneth Branagh, Margaret Drabble, Michael
Holroyd, and Rowan Williams. Though this sequence of pleasant
reflections somewhat resembles a list of customer reviews on a
commercial website, the views of these gifted individuals carry
real weight in this book, reminding readers of Shakespeare’s impact
over the generations. Indira Ghose provides a brief closing chapter
on Shakespeare’s storytelling, and the book concludes with a sonnet
by Edmondson. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general
readers.
*CHOICE*
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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