Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire Great Shakespeareans: Volume XIV
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Biografisk notat
Ruth Morse is Professor of Literature in English at the Université Paris-Diderot, France.Author Ruth Morse listed as one of the week's contributors in the Times Literary Supplement.
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 Victor-Marie Hugo, François-Victor Hugo, Boris Leonidivich Pasternak, Bertolt Brecht and Aimé Césaire 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.
Series Editors' Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK)
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Writing Against Tyranny (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France)
1. Les Hugo (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France)
2.Indirect Dissidence, Shakespeare, and Pasternak (Ann Pasternak Slater, University of Oxford, UK)
3. Brecht as Great Shakespearean: A Lifelong Connection (David Barnett, University of Sussex, UK)
4. Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête: On Poetry, Legacy and Work (Timothy Mathews, University College London, UK)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Great Shakespeareans cover the contributions made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
With world class contributors and editors, the series is a unique contribution to Shakespeare Studies, assessing both the impact of Shakespeare on the figures discussed, and the importance of the figures to our understanding of Shakespeare.