Living with Shakespeare : essays by writers, actors, and directors
Book 2013
Collects essays from actors, directors, and writers, including Brian Cox, James Earl Jones, and Joyce Carol Oates, about their appreciation of the famed playwright.
A little monkey business / Bill Willingham Speaking Shakespeare / Sir Anthony Sher Teaching Shakespeare to actors / Camille Paglia The architecture of ideas / Sir Ben KIngsley King Lear in retrospect / Cicely Berry Method and madness / Tobias Menzies Character and conundrum / Rory Kinnear In know a hawk from a handsaw regardless of the weather, but that's pretty much it / Matt Sturges The sun god / James Earl Jones Othello in love / Eamonn Walker Othello: a play in black and white / Barry John Re-revising Shakespeare / Jess Winfield "I say it is the moon" / Brian Cox The question of Coriolanus / Ralph Fiennes Trial by theatre, or, Free-thinking in Julius Caesar / Richard Scholar Saying in The Merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell Searching for Shylock / F. Murray Abraham Boldness be my friend / Fiasco Theater Killing Shakespeare and making my play / Karin Coonrod Playing Shakespeare at the Globe / Dominic Dromgoole Tolstoy and the Shakespearean gesture / Angus Fletcher The red scarf / J.D. McClatchy Spring imagery in Warwickshire / Germaine Greer What's in a name? or, Unnamed in the forest / James Prosek The sea change / David Farr Looking for Illyria / Alan Gordon Shakespeare's siblings / Eleanor Brown "A star danced" / Eve Best Two loves, or, The eternal triangle / Dame Harriet Walter Odd man out / Jane Smiley The living drama / Dame Margaret Drabble The tragedy of imagination in Antony and Cleopatra / Joyce Carol Oates War and love / Maxine Hong Kingston On the terrible and unexpected fate of the star-crossed lovers / Peter David Shakespeare and four-colour magic / Conor McCreery Rough magic / Julie Taymor My Own Private River / James Franco Enamoured with Shakespeare / Isabel Allende
