Poole provides students, academics, and general-interest readers with a collection of four academic essays and journal articles focused on four authors that represent varying aspects of the modernist response to William Shakespeare. Together, the selections that make up the text argue that the irreverence and playfulness these authors found in the work of Shakespeare are essential features of their own writing. Following an introduction by the editor, Maud Ellman covers James Joyce, Anne Stillman covers T. S. Eliot, Jeremy Noel-Tod covers W. H. Auden, and Dan Gunn covers the work of Samuel Beckett. Adrian Poole is a faculty member of the University of Cambridge, UK. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally andinternationally.
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution ofJames Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett to the afterlife andreception of Shakespeare and his works.Each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figurecovered and of that figure on the understanding, interpretation andappreciation of Shakespeare, providing a sketch of its subject's intellectualand professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context.
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A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by modernist writers.
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| Introduction |
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Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His books include Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction (2005) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (2003).
Contributors: Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago, USA), Daniel Gunn (American University of Paris, France), Jeremy Noel-Tod (University of East Anglia, UK), Adrian Poole (University of Cambridge, UK) and Anne Stillman (University of Cambridge, UK).
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