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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-- Ma

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Author

Graham Holderness

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781316004975

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Drama, Literary Fiction, Humanities