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Tales from Shakespeare : Creative Collisions

Holderness, Graham

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In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text and contemporary concerns. Using an analogy from particle physics, Holderness tests his methodology through specific examples, structured in four parts: a recreation of performances of Hamlet and Richard II aboard the East India Company ship the Red Dragon in 1607; an imagined encounter between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson writing the King James Bible; the creation of a contemporary folk hero based on Coriolanus and drawing on films such as Skyfall and The Hurt Locker; and an account of the terrorist bombing at a performance of Twelfth Night in Qatar in 2005. These pieces of narrative and drama are interspersed with literary criticism, each using a feature of the original Shakespeare play or its performance to illuminate the extraordinary elasticity of Shakespeare. The 'tales' provoke questions about what we understand to be Shakespeare and not-Shakespeare, making the book of vital interest to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, literary criticism and creative writing.

Detaljer

  • Utgivelsesdato:

    03.07.2014

  • ISBN/Varenr:

    9781107071292

  • Språk:

    , Engelsk

  • Forlag:

    Cambridge University Press

  • Fagtema:

    Litteratur

  • Litteraturtype:

    Faglitteratur

  • Sider:

    257

  • Høyde:

    21.9 cm

  • Bredde:

    15 cm