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Diana E. Henderson - Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media - 9780801444197 - V9780801444197
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Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media

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Description for Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.

"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces—political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical—that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative play begin."—from the Introduction

Focusing on key writers, actors, ... Read more

Working with texts across the entire range of Shakespeare's career, Henderson demonstrates—through detailed analyses of novels including Jane Eyre and Mrs. Dalloway as well as filmed, televised, and staged performances—that art (even in the newest media) cannot avoid collaborating with the past. Only by studying that collaborative process can we comprehend Shakespeare and Anglo-American culture.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444197
SKU
V9780801444197
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About Diana E. Henderson
Diana E. Henderson is Professor of Literature at MIT. She is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance and the editor of A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen.

Reviews for Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media
Collaborations with the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of Shakespeare's role in key periods of English cultural history, from the Romantics, represented by Sir Walter Scott, through to present-day film, television, and stage productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V.
Review of English Studies
The most probing and productive collaborations with Shakespeare, the English past, ... Read more

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