Introduction: Great creating Shakespeare
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Edmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter. (2016). Introduction: Great creating Shakespeare. In In P. Edmondson and P. Holbrook (Ed.). Shakespeare's creative legacies: Artists, writers, performers, readers pp. 1 - 7 Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234528.0008
Authors | Edmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter |
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Editors | P. Edmondson and P. Holbrook |
Abstract | [Extract] Four hundred years on from the beginning of one of the strongest of all artistic legacies, we – artists, writers, performers and readers – continue to create and re-create Shakespeare. Why? Some explanations are obvious: the sheer unmatched eloquence of the writing; the cultural prestige of the works in many parts of the world; the sticking quality – the memorableness – of Shakespeare’s stories, characters and incidents; the intellectual adventurousness and range of the plays; their refusal of oversimplification. All of these are reasons for Shakespeare’s influence on numberless poets, novelists, dramatists, composers, painters, directors, filmmakers and performers. |
Page range | 1 - 7 |
Year | 2016 |
Book title | Shakespeare's creative legacies: Artists, writers, performers, readers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781474234504 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234528.0008 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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