{"product_id":"collaborations-with-the-past-1","title":"Collaborations with the Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces—political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical—that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative play begin.\"—from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFocusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollaborations with the Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e illuminates not only the playwright's work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic process.\u003c\/b\u003e By concentrating on rich yet problematic instances of Shakespeare's reanimation in such quintessentially modern forms as the novel and film, from Sir Walter Scott's \u003ci\u003eKenilworth\u003c\/i\u003e to Kenneth Branagh's \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e, Diana E. Henderson sketches a complex history of the pleasures and difficulties that ensue when Shakespeare and modern artists collaborate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with texts across the entire range of Shakespeare's career, Henderson demonstrates—through detailed analyses of novels including \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e as well as filmed, televised, and staged performances—that art (even in the newest media) cannot avoid collaborating with the past. Only by studying that collaborative process can we comprehend Shakespeare and Anglo-American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Diana E. Henderson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615022473596,"sku":"9780801477904","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780801477904_356369be-41ce-4a87-86ab-9cd048650075.jpg?v=1725621011","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/collaborations-with-the-past-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}