New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781474244558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Paul Edmondson; Ewan Fernie

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11 incisive, illustrated chapters, along with a snappy polemical introduction and afterword, introduce a promising new direction in Shakespeare studies and the wider culture in parts of Europe and the United States.
In 2005, John Carey asked an important question: 'What Good are the Arts?' In the wake of having made their own highly distinctive contributions to the Shakespeare anniversaries of 2014/16, the contributors to this volume ask more specifically, 'What Good is Shakespeare?' New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses a range of innovative projects which take Shakespeare beyond the worlds of education and even the theatre, in an attempt to make a difference in the wider world. Mixing critical reflection on the social value of Shakespeare and creative writing, the volume presents Carol Ann Duffy's Shakespeare Ode for 2016, the first ever open-air performance of The Merchant of Venice in that city's original Jewish Ghetto, a new Shakespeare-inspired liturgy, civic-minded opera and ballet, international Shakespeare clubs and societies, and a creative practice of rehabilitating soldiers returned from war through Shakespeare. Through this rich array of examples, the book suggests that literary scholarship and creativity can make a contribution to civic life and argues for the political importance of Shakespeare's capacity to bring people together in new ways.

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface by Paul Edmondson Introduction by Ewan Fernie Part I: After Garrick 1. Reviving Garrick (including An ode upon dedicating a building, and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon by David Garrick) by Michael Dobson 2. A Shakespeare Masque: Reflections on an Anniversary Commission with Sally Beamish and Carol Ann Duffy (including the words of A Shakespeare Masque by Carol Ann Duffy) by Paul Edmondson 3. Shakespeare Unbard: Negotiating Civic Shakespeare by Hester Bradley and Richard O'Brien Part II: New Places; New Forms 4. Communities in the Theatre and in the World: Three Ballets and a Masque by David Fuller 5. Seeing More Clearly with the Eyes of Love: A Liturgy for Voices based on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Paul Fiddes and Andrew Taylor 6. The Marina Project by Katharine Craik and Ewan Fernie Part III: New Places: Europe 7. Shakespeare’s German Place: Weimar and the Jubilees, 1864/2014 by Tobias Döring 8. On Romeo and Juliet and Civic Crisis in Contemporary Verona by Silvia Bigliazzi 9. Shylock in the Thinking Machine: Civic Shakespeare and the Future of Venice by Shaul Bassi 10. Mastersinger Shakespeare! by Paul Edmondson Part III: New Places: North America 11. New Places for Civic Shakespeare in America by Katherine Scheil 12. Shakespeare and Theatre at the Civic Intersection by David Ruiter Afterword by Graham Holderness Bibliography Notes Index