How Shakespeare Changed Everything - Rilegato

Marche, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1443406503 ISBN 13: 9781443406505

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011

Riassunto

Shakespeare is all around us. From nightclubs to Broadway musicals, in voting booths in the American South and the trees of Central Park -- William Shakespeare’s literary power is so intense and widespread that it intrudes into the material world. Esquire columnist Stephen Marche takes us on a delightful tour through the continuous stream of Shakespeare’s influence, summoning up the Bard in the most unexpected places:

· In 1890, as part of a plan to introduce every bird mentioned by Shakespeare to North America, Eugene Shieffelin imported and released a bunch of pesky starlings into New York’s Central Park.
· The Nazi Party issued a pamphlet entitled “Shakespeare—a Germanic Writer,” and in 1936 there were more productions of Shakespeare in Germany than in the rest of the world combined.
· Shakespeare coined approximately 1,700 words, including lacklustre, fashionable, auspicious, bandit, glow, hush, dawn, gnarled, hobnob, traditional, and the name Jessica.
· In 1930, Paul Robeson became the first black actor to play the part of Othello in England after being rejected for the role in the United States Robeson famously said of his performance, “Othello has made me free.”

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L'autore:

STEPHEN MARCHE is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. He also writes regular features and opinion pieces for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Walrus and elsewhere, and is a weekly contributor to CBC Radio. His books include four novels, The Hunger of the Wolf, Raymond and Hannah, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea and Love and the Mess We’re In, as well was a work of non-fiction, How Shakespeare Changed Everything. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

 

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• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1443406503
• ISBN 13: 9781443406505
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224