Description
Demonstrates Shakespeare's potential for making a real contribution to contemporary civic life, especially in the wake of the significant anniversary years of 2014 and 2016.
About the Author
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association, and Honorary Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK Ewan Fernie is Chair, Professor and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. Contributors: Shaul Bassi, Sally Beamish, Silvia Bigliazzi, Hester Bradley, Katharine Craik, Michael Dobson, Carol Ann Duffy,Tobias Doering, Paul Fiddes, David Fuller, Graham Holderness, Jenny Lewis, Sinead Morrissey, Richard O'Brien, Micheal O'Siadhail, David Ruiter, Lawrence Sail, Katherine Scheil, Michael Symmons.
Reviews
Demonstrating how Shakespeare remains relevant in the 21st century, this book is valuable for situating Shakespeare in non-traditional settings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
At the crest of a coming wave of creative engagements with Shakespeare, New Places re-sets the prepositions that situate us to his plays. Less interested in finding the meanings "in" or "around" Shakespeare, New Places makes meaning "through" and "with" his works, engaging communities outside the academy and rehearsing new perceptual possibilities for the place of art in the twenty-first century. -- Paul Menzer, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance, Mary Baldwin University, USA.
Taking its cue from the happy accident of Shakespeare's historic address in Stratford-upon-Avon -a house called 'New Place' - this exuberant collection of essays finds Shakespeare more recently resident in dozens of other 'new places'. 'Civic Shakespeare' is found amongst singers, dancers, masquers, refugees, schoolchildren,in a convent-turned-Sufi Centre, in the Venetian Ghetto and amongst townspeople. -- Carol Chillington Rutter, NTF, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
Book Information
ISBN 9781474244541
Author Dr Paul Edmondson
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 449g