Nine lives of William Shakespeare
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468650 , vital:77108 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2014.901647
- Description: Shakespearean biography inhabits a curious zone of the hypothetical perfective: a few solid but scanty facts are teased this way and that at the behest of biographers to produce a convincing fictive life-story of refulgent and satisfying fullness. Yawning lacunae are sutured by means of ‘possibly’, ‘probably’, ‘conceivably’, ‘likely’, ‘reasonably’ and similar pleas for indulgence. It may be a failing in me, but this frank acknowledgment of abject ignorance, followed by bold authorial extrapolation, daintily hedged about by anxious gestures of caution and intellectual responsibility, gives me the willies. In fact, multiple ‘Willies’, Willies beyond all reason. That's one sure readerly consequence of a superfluity of biographical bardolatry, which Holderness's book both diagnoses and adds to. If Anne Barton is correct, at least one formal biography of Shakespeare has appeared each year since 1996.
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468650 , vital:77108 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2014.901647
- Description: Shakespearean biography inhabits a curious zone of the hypothetical perfective: a few solid but scanty facts are teased this way and that at the behest of biographers to produce a convincing fictive life-story of refulgent and satisfying fullness. Yawning lacunae are sutured by means of ‘possibly’, ‘probably’, ‘conceivably’, ‘likely’, ‘reasonably’ and similar pleas for indulgence. It may be a failing in me, but this frank acknowledgment of abject ignorance, followed by bold authorial extrapolation, daintily hedged about by anxious gestures of caution and intellectual responsibility, gives me the willies. In fact, multiple ‘Willies’, Willies beyond all reason. That's one sure readerly consequence of a superfluity of biographical bardolatry, which Holderness's book both diagnoses and adds to. If Anne Barton is correct, at least one formal biography of Shakespeare has appeared each year since 1996.
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- Date Issued: 2014
Trafficking in Shakespeare: origins and prospects for the'Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare'research and publication programme.
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455904 , vital:75466 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48091
- Description: This paper introduced the ‘Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare’ session at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, July 2006. The purpose of the session was to outline the rationale for the research programme in order to extend its scope and encourage further participation by scholars in the field.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455904 , vital:75466 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48091
- Description: This paper introduced the ‘Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare’ session at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, July 2006. The purpose of the session was to outline the rationale for the research programme in order to extend its scope and encourage further participation by scholars in the field.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Shakespeare in the Media: Newspaper Response to Shakespeare in Post-Independence West Bengal, 1948-97, Lipika Sidkar: book review
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455757 , vital:75454 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48012
- Description: Reading this book is a cultural experience in itself, from the typography and layout, to the scholarly conventions observed, the treatment of the subject matter and its arrangement. I found it fascinating, perhaps exaggeratedly so because of abysmal ignorance on my part concerning the voluminous scholarly and text-book literature on Shakespeare which has streamed from the presses of the sub-continent.
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- Date Issued: 2003
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455757 , vital:75454 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48012
- Description: Reading this book is a cultural experience in itself, from the typography and layout, to the scholarly conventions observed, the treatment of the subject matter and its arrangement. I found it fascinating, perhaps exaggeratedly so because of abysmal ignorance on my part concerning the voluminous scholarly and text-book literature on Shakespeare which has streamed from the presses of the sub-continent.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Confronting the African nightmare: Yael Farber’s SeZaR (theatre review)
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7046 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007388
- Description: Yael Farber’s adaptation of Julius Caesar marks something of a breakthrough in South African Shakespeare productions. The key achievement is that the play is no longer about Rome or Renaissance England, nor is it about processes of cultural translation or trendy theatrical Africanisation, largely cosmetic. This production is, in a generous way, squarely and pointedly about Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7046 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007388
- Description: Yael Farber’s adaptation of Julius Caesar marks something of a breakthrough in South African Shakespeare productions. The key achievement is that the play is no longer about Rome or Renaissance England, nor is it about processes of cultural translation or trendy theatrical Africanisation, largely cosmetic. This production is, in a generous way, squarely and pointedly about Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Theatre Reviews: Confronting the African nightmate
- Wright, Laurence, Jefferey, C
- Authors: Wright, Laurence , Jefferey, C
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455890 , vital:75465 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_170
- Description: Yael Farber's adaptation of Julius Caesar marks something of a breakthrough in South African Shakespeare productions. The key achievement is that the play is no longer about Rome or Renaissance England, nor is it about processes of cultural translation or trendy theatrical Africanisation, largely cosmetic. This production is, in a generous way, squarely and pointedly about Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Wright, Laurence , Jefferey, C
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455890 , vital:75465 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_170
- Description: Yael Farber's adaptation of Julius Caesar marks something of a breakthrough in South African Shakespeare productions. The key achievement is that the play is no longer about Rome or Renaissance England, nor is it about processes of cultural translation or trendy theatrical Africanisation, largely cosmetic. This production is, in a generous way, squarely and pointedly about Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2001
A checklist of South African theses and dissertations on Shakespeare
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455547 , vital:75438 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_23
- Description: This checklist is in two parts. The first lists South African Shakespearean theses and dissertations, as well as some work on Shakespeare completed abroad by South Africans recently or currently active in the country. A few items in which Shakespeare is an important subordinate focus are included. The second list is devoted to Shakespearean pedagogy. Neither list is comprehensive.
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- Date Issued: 1993
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455547 , vital:75438 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_23
- Description: This checklist is in two parts. The first lists South African Shakespearean theses and dissertations, as well as some work on Shakespeare completed abroad by South Africans recently or currently active in the country. A few items in which Shakespeare is an important subordinate focus are included. The second list is devoted to Shakespearean pedagogy. Neither list is comprehensive.
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- Date Issued: 1993
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