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Book review: In love with Shakespeare VAfter Shakespeare edited by John Gross Oxford University Press, pounds 17.99
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020423
Author:Aleks Sierz
IT'S HARD to think of another writer who has been such an inspiration to other writers as Shakespeare.
In John Gross's anthology, the bard's more general influence - in the plots of West Side Story or Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, for example - is ignored in favour of "specifically Shakespearean" material that "builds on characters and plays, or on the life and personality of Shakespeare himself".
So we find not only novelists, poets and playwrights, but philosophers, politicians and film-makers. Big names such as Goethe and Proust, Emily Dickinson and Wole Soyinka, Cole Porter and Duke ...
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