Introduction : Great creating Shakespeare

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Edmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter. (2016). Introduction : Great creating Shakespeare. In In Edmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter (Ed.). Shakespeare's creative legacies : Artists, writers, performers, readers pp. 1-7 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234528.0008
AuthorsEdmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter
EditorsEdmondson, Paul and Holbrook, Peter
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[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.

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Year2016
Book titleShakespeare's creative legacies : Artists, writers, performers, readers
PublisherBloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Place of publicationLondon, United Kingdom
ISBN9781474234498
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9781474234528
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234528.0008
Research GroupInstitute for Humanities and Social Sciences
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