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Tales from Shakespeare
Graham Holderness
其他書名
Creative Collisions
出版Cambridge University Press, 2014-07-03
主題Drama / ShakespeareLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Writing / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN11070712919781107071292
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hfHCAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.