After Shakespeare : an anthology / edited by John Gross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, John, 1935-2011.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary collections.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

xiii, 360 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers as Shakespeare. No writer has attracted such widespread and varied comment. This unique anthology draws on the vast literature that plays little part in formal Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, but that shows with immediacy and passion the enormous impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented. So are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, politicians. Shakespearean characters and motifs are shown fuelling the genius of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Duke Ellington, Nabokov and Proust. Shakespeare the man fires the imagination of Kipling and Joyce, Borges and Anthony Burgess. Herman Melville writes a poem about Falstaff. D. H. Lawrence anatomizes Hamlet. R. K. Narayan describes a Shakespeare lesson in an Indian classroom. John Osborne adapts Coriolanus. Ionesco reworks Macbeth. The choice of critical responses is equally wide-ranging. Jean-Paul Sartre proves an unexpectedly expert commentator on King Lear. Alfred Dreyfus and Nelson Mandela console themselves with Shakespeare during their imprisonment. And curiosities abound -- parodies, burlesques, strange echoes and eccentricities. Throughout the book we can see Shakespeare changing lives, opening up fresh horizons and reaching out to 'the great globe itself'.

Contents:

By Way of a Prologue 3

The Man and the Legend 5

The Poet 23

The Making of a Reputation 29

Worlds Elsewhere 43

Echoes 95

In the Shadow of History 110

Early Encounters 144

A Variety of Views 154

Among Novelists 173

Plays and Characters 196

Fictions - 1 Tales of Shakespeare 238

Fictions - 2 Tales from Shakespeare 277

Offshoots and Adaptations 295

In the Margin 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0192142682

OCLC:

48754118