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A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This is the only book fully to document all 74 productions which formed part of the Festival in 2012 through well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and other short pieces of related interest.From a Lithuaninan Hamlet , an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce's King Lear, this is a rich resource of critical interest to all students and scholars of Shakespeare in performance, global Shakespeare and the adaptation of Shakespeare. Illustrated with images from the productions, the book is also a great read, capturing the vitality and excitement of this extraordinary event., A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival's 73 productions in well-informed,lively reviews by eminent and up-and-coming scholars and critics from the UK and around the world. A rich resource of critical interest to all students, scholars and lovers of Shakespeare, the book also captures the excitement of this extraordinary event. A Year of Shakespeare provides:* a ground-breaking collection of Shakespearean reviews, covering all of the Festival's productions;* a dynamic visual record through a wide range of production photographs;* incisive analysis of the Festival's significance in the wider context of the Cultural Olympiad 2012.All the world really is a stage, and it's time for curtain-up...

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And so a naive Mel Ryane volunteers to create The Shakespeare Club at a public school-for kids who have never seen a play, much less acted in one.I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall, A new edition of Russell Fraser's text with a wholly new Introduction by Alexander Leggatt., FOLGER Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play - Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play - Scene-by-scene plot summaries - A key to famous lines and phrases - An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language - An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play - Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by David McCandless The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe.Scholars continue to debate the identity of the historical figures signified by these birds, especially in Shakespeare's cryptic contribution.Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film.This edition includes numerous illustrations of productions and reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740.Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece.In the last two chapters Davis presents a new way to think about leadership levels, framing them in terms of the impact you have rather than the title on your business card.Kastan examines the motives and activities of Shakespeare's first publishers; the curious eighteenth-century schizophrenia that saw Shakespeare radically modified on stage at the very moment that scholars were working to establish and restore the "genuine" texts, and the exhilarating possibilities of electronic media for presenting Shakespeare now to new generations of readers.