A Year of Shakespeare: Re-Living the World Shakespeare Festival

ISBN-13: 9781408188149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.

Paul Edmondson

Opis

A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This is the only book fully to document all 74 productions which formed part of the Festival in 2012 through well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and other short pieces of related interest.
From a Lithuaninan Hamlet, an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce's King Lear, this is a rich resource of critical interest to all students and scholars of Shakespeare in performance, global Shakespeare and the adaptation of Shakespeare. Illustrated with images from the productions, the book is also a great read, capturing the vitality and excitement of this extraordinary event.

Recenzje

This is an extraordinary collection of essays recording the events of the World Shakespeare Festival, summoning up its kaleidoscopic diversity, its global reach, its oddities, triumphs and provocations- it's Shakespeare criticism as you have never encountered it before, scholarly, experimental, instant, and at times bizarre. It takes Shakespeare from the stage and academe into the age of Twitter and Facebook, and makes you feel you were there, present at all those strange and wonderful productions you missed. It's an exhilarating record of a great and successful Shakespearean adventure. Dame Margaret Drabble

O autorze

Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and a priest in The Church of England. Paul Prescott is an internationally recognised expert on Shakespeare and performance who has held positions at the University of Warwick, UK, and the University of California, US. = Erin Sullivan is Reader in Shakespeare at the Shakespeare institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice (2022) and Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (2016).