Living the Shakespearean Life: True Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587905000 ISBN 13: 9781587905001

Publisher: Regent Pr, 2019

Synopsis

Living the Shakespearean Life: True Stories is a collection of oral histories from eminent Shakespeare scholars, directors, and actors in England and America. They talk about the full range of their Shakespearean lives, including how they first became interested in Shakespeare, what they have learned from Shakespeare, what the Shakespearean is, what Shakespeare might have been like, and specific lines, plays, and characters. This book is for anyone who loves Shakespeare.

About this title

About the Author:

John Boe received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Lecturer Emeritus at UC Davis, where he taught for thirty years and edited the journal Writing on the Edge (WOE). He recently co-edited "Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989-2017." He has published various articles on Shakespeare, including two included in his collection "Life Itself: Messiness is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays": "To Kill Mercutio: Thoughts on Shakespeare's Psychological Development" and "The Introvert in Shakespeare." He also wrote about Cymbeline for the "Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare." He won First Prize in the 1991 H.R. Roberts Literary Awards, Informal Essay category, and has won teaching prizes from UC Davis and Phi Beta Kappa. He wrote his answers to his own questions at his home in Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regent Pr
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1587905000
• ISBN 13: 9781587905001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257
• Editor: Boe John