{"product_id":"living-with-shakespeare-susannah-carson-9780307742919","title":"Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors","description":"Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In \u003ci\u003eLiving with Shakespeare, \u003c\/i\u003eSusannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe 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 \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to Iowa in \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eF. 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susannah Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307742911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307742919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 4.78w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2013 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014 pg. 48","brand":"Susannah Carson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946417127679,"sku":"9780307742919","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_71fed1a4-311b-4308-8edb-d9298c351206.jpg?v=1681513028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-with-shakespeare-susannah-carson-9780307742919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}