{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-legacy-of-emily-hodgson-anderson-9780472130931","title":"Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Legacy of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn chapters featuring \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick's performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Hodgson Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472130935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472130931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Emily Hodgson Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227518398719,"sku":"9780472130931","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9edfe68d-357d-4922-93b2-c7103462b0f8.jpg?v=1692809131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-legacy-of-emily-hodgson-anderson-9780472130931","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}