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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Emily Hodgson
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-15T14:05:50Z
dc.date.available2020-12-15T14:05:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43877
dc.description.abstractHow do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again. In chapters featuring Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick’s performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherPerforming Arts
dc.subject.otherTheater
dc.subject.otherHistory & Criticism
dc.titleShakespeare and the Legacy of Loss
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.9793696
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780472130931
oapen.relation.isbn9780472124121
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintUniversity of Michigan Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/019e3785-1aa3-4ee8-be0c-b2a2332c5f9e
grantor.number104003


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