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

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A unique celebration of Shakespeare’s extraordinary four hundred year impact on the performing, written and visual Arts.

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.

Reviews

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*