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Shakespeare and Me
38 Great Writers, Actors, and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them – and Us
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eBook - ePub
Shakespeare and Me
38 Great Writers, Actors, and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them – and Us
About this book
Why Shakespeare?
It’s been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and entertainment in his poems and plays. In this original collection, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to share their own personal connections with Shakespeare and explore how he came to shape our world so completely.
Along the way, we reminisce on a childhood spent constructing makeshift matchstick theatres with Isabel Allende, grapple with Coriolanus for a modern audience alongside Ralph Fiennes, hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, share in Julie Taymor’s transformation of Prospero into Prospera, join Sir Ben Kingsley on his mission to keep Shakespeare’s ideas alive for all generations through performance, and muse with Brian Cox on social conflict in Shakespeare’s time and in ours. Together they offer fresh insight into Shakespeare’s work as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and loved.
It’s been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and entertainment in his poems and plays. In this original collection, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to share their own personal connections with Shakespeare and explore how he came to shape our world so completely.
Along the way, we reminisce on a childhood spent constructing makeshift matchstick theatres with Isabel Allende, grapple with Coriolanus for a modern audience alongside Ralph Fiennes, hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, share in Julie Taymor’s transformation of Prospero into Prospera, join Sir Ben Kingsley on his mission to keep Shakespeare’s ideas alive for all generations through performance, and muse with Brian Cox on social conflict in Shakespeare’s time and in ours. Together they offer fresh insight into Shakespeare’s work as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and loved.
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INDEX
All’s Well That Ends Well: 230, 387, 398–400
Bertram: 387, 399, 400
Countess of Rossillion: 398, 399
Helena: 387, 398–400
King of France: 399
Lafeu: 399
Lavache: 399
Parolles: 399–400
Antony and Cleopatra: xii–xiii, xxvii, 30, 34, 143, 325, 396, 402–406, 415–416, 418–432
Agrippa: 423
Caesar’s Messenger: 423, 427
Cleopatra: ix, xxiv, 34, 324, 387, 396, 402–406, 415–416, 418–432, 449
Enobarbus: 402–406, 419, 422, 423
Lepidus: 422
Mark Antony: 34, 387, 402–406, 418–432
Octavius Caesar: 404, 416, 419, 421, 422, 423, 424–425, 427, 429
Philo: 34, 419, 421
Ventidius: 422
As You Like It: x, xxiii, 39, 187, 202–203, 207, 219, 300, 348, 350, 371, 373–376, 396
Celia: 39, 187, 375–376
Duke Frederick: 375, 376
Duke Senior: 202, 350, 375, 376
Jacques: 362, 396
Le Beau: 187
Orlando: 39, 202, 373, 388
Phoebe: 202–203
Rosalind: x, 39, 187, 202–203, 209, 348–349, 373–376, 388, 396, 415, 452
Silvius: 203
Touchstone: 360, 365, 369
The Comedy of Errors: 353, 354, 355, 366, 374
Antipholus: ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Who Else Is There?
- Introduction: The Tygers Hart
- Bill Willingham – A Little Monkey Business
- Sir Antony Sher – Speaking Shakespeare
- Camille Paglia – Teaching Shakespeare to Actors
- Sir Ben Kingsley – The Architecture of Ideas
- Cicely Berry – King Lear in Retrospect
- Tobias Menzies – Method and Madness
- Rory Kinnear – Character and Conundrum
- Matt Sturges – I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw Regardless of the Weather, but That’s Pretty Much It
- James Earl Jones – The Sun God
- Eamonn Walker – Othello in Love
- Barry John – Othello: A Play in Black and White
- Jess Winfield – Re-revising Shakespeare
- Brian Cox – “I Say It Is the Moon”
- Ralph Fiennes – The Question of Coriolanus
- Richard Scholar – Trial by Theatre, or Free-Thinking in Julius Caesar
- Stanley Cavell – Saying in The Merchant of Venice
- F. Murray Abraham – Searching for Shylock
- Fiasco Theater – Boldness Be My Friend
- Karin Coonrod – Killing Shakespeare and Making My Play
- Dominic Dromgoole – Playing Shakespeare at the Globe
- Angus Fletcher – Tolstoy and the Shakespearean Gesture
- J. D. Mcclatchy – The Red Scarf
- Germaine Greer – Spring Imagery in Warwickshire
- James Prosek – What’s in a Name? or Unnamed in the Forest
- David Farr – The Sea Change
- Alan Gordon – Looking for Illyria
- Eleanor Brown – Shakespeare’s Siblings
- Eve Best – “A Star Danced”
- Dame Harriet Walter – Two Loves, or the Eternal Triangle
- Jane Smiley – Odd Man Out
- Dame Margaret Drabble – The Living Drama
- Joyce Carol Oates – The Tragedy of Imagination in Antony and Cleopatra
- Maxine Hong Kingston – War and Love
- Peter David – On the Terrible and Unexpected Fate of the Star-Crossed Lovers
- Conor Mccreery – Shakespeare and Four-Colour Magic
- Julie Taymor – Rough Magic
- James Franco – My Own Private River
- Isabel Allende – Enamoured with Shakespeare
- Index of Plays and Characters
- Permission Acknowledgments
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