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Title:
"'A Star Danced.'"
Author:
Best, Eve.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Draws on her acting experience in two productions at the Globe, as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, to suggest that Shakespeare's characters are connected despite contrary qualities.

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Title:
"The Living Drama"
Author:
Drabble, Margaret.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Examines the author's experience as a reader of and audience for Shakespeare's texts and stage performances to suggest how they influenced her novels, The Garrick Year and The Sea Lady.

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Title:
"War and Love"
Author:
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Draws on the author's recollections about teaching Romeo and Juliet to students during the Vietnam war, suggesting that Shakespeare's love story can be used in classroom according to our own time.

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Title:
"My Own Private River"
Author:
Franco, James.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Suggests that his film My Own Private River stems from an "artistic genealogy" of films and Shakespeare's plays, relating his project to Shakespeare's using British history for his plays.

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