Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XIV

ISBN-13: 9781441139467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 248 str.

Ruth Morse

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Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Victor Hugo, Boris Pasternak, Bertolt Brecht and Aime Cesaire to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

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Series Editors' Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK) List of Illustrations Introduction: Writing Against Tyranny (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 1. Les Hugo (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 2.Indirect Dissidence, Shakespeare, and Pasternak (Ann Pasternak Slater, University of Oxford, UK) 3. Brecht as Great Shakespearean: A Lifelong Connection (David Barnett, University of Sussex, UK) 4. Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête: On Poetry, Legacy and Work (Timothy Mathews, University College London, UK) Notes Select Bibliography Index