Susannah Carson Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors-与莎士比亚同住

作者:  Susannah Carson, Harold Bloom, Bill Willingham, Sir Antony Sher, Camille Paglia

书名：Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors《与莎士比亚同住》

英文简介：Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In 'LIVING WITH SHAKESPEARE', Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the plays to actors, F. Murray Abraham on gaining an audience’s sympathy for Shylock, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare’s ideas through performance, Germaine Greer on the playwright’s home life, Dame Harriet Walter on the complexity of his heroines, Brian Cox on social conflict in his time and ours, Jane Smiley on transposing King Lear to Iowa in A Thousand Acres, and Sir Antony Sher on feeling at home in Shakespeare’s language. Together these essays provide a fresh appreciation of Shakespeare’s works as a living legacy to be heard, read, seen, performed, adapted, revised, wrestled with, and embraced by creative professionals and lay enthusiasts alike.