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...
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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…. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- List of illustrations -- Note on names and textual references -- Foreword -- PART ONE: Openings -- Olympic Performance in the Year of Shakespeare -- Nightwatch Constables and Domineering Pedants: the past, present and future of Shakespearean theatre reviewing -- PART TWO: The Reviews -- All's Well That Ends Well -- Antony and Cleopatra -- As You Like It -- The Comedy of Errors -- Coriolanus -- Coriolan/us -- Cymbeline -- Hamlet -- The Rest is Silence -- Henry IV Part 1 -- Henry IV Part 2 -- Henry V -- Henry VI Part 1 -- Henry VI Part 2 -- Henry VI Part 3 -- Henry VIII -- Julius Caesar -- I, Cinna (The Poet) -- King John -- King Lear -- Love's Labour's Lost -- Macbeth -- 2008: Macbeth -- Macbeth: Leïla & Ben -- Measure for Measure -- The Merchant of Venice -- The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Falstaff -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) -- Much Ado About Nothing -- Othello -- Otello -- Desdemona -- Pericles -- The Rape of Lucrece -- Richard II -- Richard III -- Two Roses for Richard III -- Romeo and Juliet -- Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad -- West Side Story -- The Taming of the Shrew -- The Tempest -- Y Storm -- Timon of Athens -- Titus Andronicus -- Troilus and Cressida -- Twelfth Night -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Venus and Adonis -- The Winter's Tale -- In a Pickle -- Events and adaptations inspired by multiple plays or themes -- The Hollow Crown: Richard II -- The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1 -- The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 2 -- The Hollow Crown: Henry V -- The Dark Side of Love -- Forests -- A Soldier in Every Son -- Shakespeare: Staging the World -- A Tender Thing -- PART THREE: Endings -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Productions by Country and Language.
