Author: Thomas Goltz
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The startling adventures of a young Shakespearean street performer in 1970s Africa.

Author: Loraine Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910996263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Mike Wilcock
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781904505006
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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An exploration of modern directors approaches to 'Hamlet'

Author: Martha Kalnin Diede
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101335
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state. By depicting the theater as an essential faculty of the body politic, Shakespeare offers a defense of the theater against anti-theatrical critics. Students and teachers interested in the body and its representations in literature will find this text illuminating as will those scholars whose work focuses on knowledge, its relationship to the body, ways of knowing, and anti-theatrical prejudice.

Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786491655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.

Author: Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Susannah Carson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307742911
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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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 audience’s sympathy for Shylock, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare’s ideas through performance, Germaine Greer on the playwright’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 Shakespeare’s language. Together these essays provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeare’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 ● Isabel Allende ● Cicely Berry ● Eve Best ● Eleanor Brown ● Stanley Cavell ● Karin Coonrod ● Brian Cox ● Peter David ● Margaret Drabble ● Dominic Dromgoole ● David Farr ● Fiasco Theater ● Ralph Fiennes ● Angus Fletcher ● James Franco ● Alan Gordon ● Germaine Greer ● Barry John ● James Earl Jones ● Sir Ben Kingsley ● Maxine Hong Kingston ● Rory Kinnear ● J. D. McClatchy ● Conor McCreery ● Tobias Menzies ● Joyce Carol Oates ● Camille Paglia ● James Prosek ● Richard Scholar ● Sir Antony Sher ● Jane Smiley ● Matt Sturges ● Julie Taymor ● Eamonn Walker ● Dame Harriet Walter ● Bill Willingham ● Jess Winfield

Author: B. J. Sokol
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826492193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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This encyclopedia-style dicitonary explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interactions within Shakespearean drama.

Author: Thomas Goltz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317469887
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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First Published in 2015. The author of the acclaimed Azerbaijan Diary and Chechnya Diary now recounts his experiences in the strife-ridden Republic of Georgia. Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia fell prey to a series of power struggles, rampant crime and corruption, secessionist wars, and the spillover of the war in neighboring Chechenya. Journalist Goltz traces these developments with the same kind of vivid, personal narrative that made his previous books so compelling. This fast-paced, first-person account is filled with fascinating details about the ongoing struggles of this little-known region of the former Soviet Union. Featuring memorable portraits of individuals in high places and low, it traces the story from 1992 through the Rose Revolution, the resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze, and the new presidency of U.S.-educated Mikhail Saakashvili.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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