Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XII

ISBN-13: 9781472518507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str.

Adrian Poole

Opis

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally andinternationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution ofJames Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett to the afterlife andreception of Shakespeare and his works.Each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figurecovered and of that figure on the understanding, interpretation andappreciation of Shakespeare, providing a sketch of its subject's intellectualand professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context.

Spis treści

Series Preface \ Introduction \ 1. James Joyce Maud Ellmann \ 2. T.S Eliot Anne Stillman \ 3. W.H. Auden Jeremy Noel-Tod \ 4. Samuel Beckett Daniel Gunn \ Index

O autorze

Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, UK.
His books include Tragedy: A very short introduction (OUP) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden).