{"product_id":"living-with-shakespeare-essays-by-writers-actors-and-directors-paperback","title":"Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusannah Carson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In \u003ci\u003eLiving with Shakespeare, \u003c\/i\u003eSusannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the plays to actors, F. Murray Abraham on gaining an audience's sympathy for Shylock, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare's ideas through performance, Germaine Greer on the playwright's home life, Dame Harriet Walter on the complexity of his heroines, Brian Cox on social conflict in his time and ours, Jane Smiley on transposing \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to Iowa in \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sir Antony Sher on feeling at home in Shakespeare's language. Together these essays provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeare's works as a living legacy to be read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and embraced by creative professionals and lay enthusiasts alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eF. Murray Abraham ● Isabel Allende ● Cicely Berry ● Eve Best ● Eleanor Brown ● Stanley Cavell ● Karin Coonrod ● Brian Cox ● Peter David ● Margaret Drabble ● Dominic Dromgoole ● David Farr ● Fiasco Theater ● Ralph Fiennes ● Angus Fletcher ● James Franco ● Alan Gordon ● Germaine Greer ● Barry John ● James Earl Jones ● Sir Ben Kingsley ● Maxine Hong Kingston ● Rory Kinnear ● J. D. McClatchy ● Conor McCreery ● Tobias Menzies ● Joyce Carol Oates ● Camille Paglia ● James Prosek ● Richard Scholar ● Sir Antony Sher ● Jane Smiley ● Matt Sturges ● Julie Taymor ● Eamonn Walker ● Dame Harriet Walter ● Bill Willingham ● Jess Winfield\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusannah Carson\u003c\/b\u003e is an American author, editor, and academic. She received her Ph.D. from Yale, after earning graduate degrees at Paris III, La Sorbonne-Nouvelle and Lyon II, L'Université des Lumières. Her first edited volume of literary essays was \u003ci\u003eA Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Authors on Why We Read Jane Austen. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has appeared in scholarly publications, newspapers, and magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 500\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 8.34 x 4.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381775515826,"sku":"9780307742919","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ab39040351ba83ee17aa4551fac3d0db.webp?v=1777820477","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/living-with-shakespeare-essays-by-writers-actors-and-directors-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}