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Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench

Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVI

Professor Russell Jackson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:24th Oct '13

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Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench cover

A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on four actors' reception of Shakespeare.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and Judi Dench to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

ISBN: 9781441185259

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 529g

248 pages