Year of Shakespeare

<i>A Year of Shakespeare </i>gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival's 73 productions in well-informed lively reviews by eminent and up-and-coming scholars and critics from the UK and around the world. A rich resource of critical interest to all students scholars and lovers of Shakespeare the book also captures the excitement of this extraordinary event.<br/><br/><i>A Year of Shakespeare</i> provides: <br/>- a ground-breaking collection of Shakespearean reviews covering all of the Festival's productions;<br/>- a dynamic visual record through a wide range of production photographs;<br/>- incisive analysis of the Festival's significance in the wider context of the Cultural Olympiad 2012.<br/><br/>All the world really is a stage and it's time for curtain-up...