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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Susannah Carson, Harold Bloom (Foreword by)Publish date:2013-04-09Pages:500
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307742919ISBN-10:307742911UPC:9780307742919Book Category:Drama, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, TheaterSize:8.34 x 4.78 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCZ2XN83SP

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307742919ISBN-10:307742911UPC:9780307742919Book Category:Drama, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, TheaterSize:8.34 x 4.78 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCZ2XN83SP
Susannah Carson is an American author, editor, and academic. She received her Ph.D. from Yale, after earning graduate degrees at Paris III, La Sorbonne-Nouvelle and Lyon II, L'Université des Lumières. Her first edited volume of literary essays was A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Authors on Why We Read Jane Austen. Her work has appeared in scholarly publications, newspapers, and...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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