The Edinburgh Companion To Shakespeare And The Arts

The Edinburgh Companion To Shakespeare And The Arts

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This comprensive book xplores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and present. The thirty newly commissioned chapters in this Companion recover the conditions that enabled Shakespeare's art, and move through subsequent centuries to detail how the plays and poems have been reworked and revitalized in the arts of modernity, including publishing, exhibiting, staging, reconstructing and disseminating. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection. The six sections: Shakespeare & the Book " Shakespeare & Music " Shakespeare on Stage & in Performance " Shakespeare & Youth Culture " Shakespeare, Visual & Material Culture " Shakespeare, Media & Culture Key Points:" Addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of reference" Chapters consider chronology and overview, critical history and analysis" Responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film, performance and mass media more generally Contributors:Michael Best " David Bevington " Erin C. Blake " Judith Buchanan " Mark Thornton Burnett " Christie Carson " Anne-Marie Costantini-Corn de " Rodney Stenning Edgecombe " Balz Engler " Richard Foulkes " Susanne Greenhalgh " Adam Hansen " Andrew James Hartley " Peter Holbrook " Alexander C. Y. Huang " Michael P. Jensen " Edel Lamb " Sonia Massai " Lucy Munro " Marianne Novy " Stephen Purcell " Fiona Ritchie " Kate Rumbold " Julie Sanders " Amy Scott-Douglass " Adrian Streete " Fran Teague " Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. " Christopher R. Wilson " Ramona Wray

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