Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XIV
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Overview
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.
A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on five Europeans who saw Shakespeare as a force of resistance against tyranny.
comprehensive critical analysis - with more in-depth coverage than in other reference sources - of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors
this volume focuses on Shakespeare’s reception by major European writers
focus on the diverse afterlives of Shakespeare - assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare
each contributor provides a sketch of their subject’s intellectual/professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field
fantastic editorial line-up - excellent international contributors and editors - series editors and editorial board are among the leading scholars in their fields
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
Author Ruth Morse listed as one of the week’s contributors in the Times Literary Supplement.
- Title: Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire: Great Shakespeareans
- Author: Ruth Morse
- Series: Great Shakespeareans
- Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472539076, 9781441139467, 144113946X, 1472539079
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472539076
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:40:18Z
Ruth Morse is Professor of Literature in English at the Université Paris-Diderot, France.