| Description |
xxviii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
A little monkey business / Bill Wallingham -- Speaking Shakespeare / Sir Anthony Sher -- Teaching Shakespeare to actors / Camille Paglia -- The architecture of ideas / Sir Ben KIngsley -- King Lear in retrospect / Cicely Berry -- Method and madness / Tobias Menzies -- Character and conundrum / Rory Kinnear -- I know a hawk from a handsaw regardless of the weather, but that's pretty much it / Matt Sturges -- The sun god / James Earl Jones -- Othello in love / Eamonn Walker -- Othello: a play in black and white / Barry John -- Re-revising Shakespeare / Jess Winfield -- "I say it is the moon" / Brian Cox -- The question of Coriolanus / Ralph Fiennes -- Trial by theatre, or free-thinking in Julius Caesar / Richard Scholar -- Saying in The Merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell -- Searching for Shylock / F. Murray Abraham -- Boldness be my friend / Fiasco Theater -- Killing Shakespeare and making my play / Karin Coonrod -- Playing Shakespeare at the Globe / Dominic Dromgoole -- Tolstoy and the Shakespearean gesture / Angus Fletcher -- The red scarf / J. D. McClatchy -- Spring imagery in Warwickshire / Germaine Greer -- What's in a name? or unnamed in the forest / James Prosek -- The sea change / David Farr -- Looking for Illyria / Alan Gordon -- Shakespeare's siblings / Eleanor Brown -- "A star danced" / Eve Best -- Two loves, or the eternal triangle / Dame Harriet Walker -- Odd man out / Jane Smiley -- The living drama / Dame Margaret Drabble -- The tragedy of imagination in Antony and Cleopatra / Joyce Carol Oates -- War and love / Maxine Hong Kingston -- On the terrible and unexpected fate of the star-crossed lovers / Peter David -- Shakespeare and four-color magic / Conor McCreery -- Rough magic / Julie Taymor -- My Own Private River / James Franco -- Enamoured with Shakespeare / Isabel Allende. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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| Added Author |
Carson, Susannah, editor of compilation.
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| ISBN |
9780307742919 paperback |
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0307742911 paperback |
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