Collaborations with the past : reshaping Shakespeare across time and media
"Focusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, Collaborations with the Past illuminates not only the playwright's work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic process. By concentrating on rich yet problematic instances of Shakespeare's reanimation in such quintessentially modern forms as the novel and film, from Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, Diana E. Henderson sketches a complex history of the pleasures and difficulties that ensue when Shakespeare and modern artists collaborate." "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."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801444197, 0801444195
64390498
Bards of the borders : Scott's Kenilworth, the nineteenth century's Shakespeare, and the tragedy of Othello
A fine romance : Cymbeline, Jane Eyre, and Mrs. Dalloway
The return of the shrew : new media, old stories, and Shakespearean comedy
What's past is prologue : Shakespeare's history and the modern performance of Henry V