Shakespeare's Creative Legacies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474234498)

This is a book about the continuing significance of Shakespeare in global culture and the arts. We justly celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists, and performers - of all kinds and from all around the world - recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage and the screen, in poetry, fiction, music, and dance, as well as in cultural life and literary criticism. A series of concise introductory essays are here combined with personal reflections written by prominent contemporary practitioners of the arts. At once a celebration and a reflection, this unique book explores Shakespeare as a global cultural figure who continues to inspire artists, audiences and readers around the world.

Author: Peter Holbrook
ISBN-10: 1474234496
ISBN-13: 9781474234498
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2016
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2017