Shakespeare & me
Subtitle: great writers, actors and directors on what the bard means to them - and us
By: edited by Susannah Carson ; foreword by Harold Bloom
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781780744261; 9781780748474; 9781780744896
Subjects: Appreciation; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Art appreciation
Other titles: Shakespeare and me
Work titles: Living with Shakespeare
Description: Collects essays from actors, directors, and writers, including Brian Cox, James Earl Jones, and Joyce Carol Oates, about their appreciation of the famed playwright.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Little Monkey Business / Bill Willingham; title: Speaking Shakespeare / Sir Antony Sher; title: Teaching Shakespeare to Actors / Camille Paglia; title: The Architecture of Ideas / Sir Ben Kingsley; title: King Lear in Retrospect / Cicely Berry; title: Method and Madness / Tobias Menzies; title: Character and Conundrum / Rory Kinnear; title: I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw Regardless of the Weather, but That's Pretty Much It / Matt Sturges; title: The Sun God / James Earl Jones; title: Othello In Love / Eamonn Walker; title: Othello : A Play in Black and White / Barry John; title: Re-revising Shakespeare / Jess Winfield; title: "I Say It Is The Moon" / Brian Cox; title: The Question of Coriolanus / Ralph Fiennes; title: Trial By Theatre, Or Free-Thinking In Julius Caesar / Richard Scholar; title: Saying in The Merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell; title: Searching For Shylock / F. Murray Abraham; title: Boldness Be My Friend / Fiasco Theater; title: Killing Shakespeare And Making My Play / Karin Coonrod; title: Note continued: Playing Shakespeare At The Globe / Dominic Dromgoole; title: Tolstoy and the Shakespearean Gesture / Angus Fletcher; title: The Red Scarf / J. D. Mcclatchy; title: Spring Imagery In Warwickshire / Germaine Greer; title: What's In A Name? Or Unnamed In The Forest / James Prosek; title: The Sea Change / David Farr; title: Looking For Illyria / Alan Gordon; title: Shakespeare's Siblings / Eleanor Brown; title: "A Star Danced" / Eve Best; title: Two Loves, or the Eternal Triangle / Dame Harriet Walter; title: Odd Man Out / Jane Smiley; title: The Living Drama / Dame Margaret Drabble; title: The Tragedy Of Imagination In Antony And Cleopatra / Joyce Carol Oates; title: War and Love / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: On The Terrible And Unexpected Fate Of The Star-Crossed Lovers / Peter David; title: Shakespeare And Four-Colour Magic / Conor McCreery; title: Rough Magic / Julie Taymor; title: My Own Private River / James Franco; title: Enamoured With Shakespeare / Isabel Allende.