Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and

Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the plays to actors, F. Murray Abraham on gaining an audienceâ€™s sympathy for Shylock, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeareâ€™s ideas through performance, Germaine Greer on the playwrightâ€™s home life, Dame Harriet Walter on the complexity of his heroines, Brian Cox on social conflict in his time and ours, Jane Smiley on transposing King Lear to Iowa in A Thousand Acres, and Sir Antony Sher on feeling at home in Shakespeareâ€™s language. Together these essays provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeareâ€™s works as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and embraced by creative professionals and lay enthusiasts alike.

F. Murray Abraham â— Isabel Allende â— Cicely Berry â— Eve Best â— Eleanor Brown â— Stanley Cavell â— Karin Coonrod â— Brian Cox â— Peter David â— Margaret Drabble â— Dominic Dromgoole â— David Farr â— Fiasco Theater â— Ralph Fiennes â— Angus Fletcher â— James Franco â— Alan Gordon â— Germaine Greer â— Barry John â— James Earl Jones â— Sir Ben Kingsley â— Maxine Hong Kingston â— Rory Kinnear â— J. D. McClatchy â— Conor McCreery â— Tobias Menzies â— Joyce Carol Oates â— Camille Paglia â— James Prosek â— Richard Scholar â— Sir Antony Sher â— Jane Smiley â— Matt Sturges â— Julie Taymor â— Eamonn Walker â— Dame Harriet Walter â— Bill Willingham â— Jess Winfield
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 657987
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2013-04-09
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780307742919

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	657987
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2013-04-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780307742919

Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

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