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In the third of a series of articles, author John MacAuslan continues to explore how music speaks to people.
Read MoreIn the second in a four week series, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, enjoys the work of Adolf von Menzel. Last week, he examined how Schumann’s Kreisleriana works. In 1838,Schumann wrote to a friend of his ‘fairly lonely path’, on which ‘a real companion in art is a […]
Read MoreOver the next four weeks, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, will explore why music is important. One after another, Schumann wrote great piano works apparently connected to literature –Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Kreisleriana, Nachtstücke. But how connected? I couldn’t believe the connection was primarily about programmes. Nor primarily about formal […]
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This weekend, 400 years after his death, Shakespeare was commemorated all over the world. This in itself is a testament to the legacy left by the playwrite, who is recognised and loved by all. Our Shakespeare authors have been providing us with some intruiging insights on what Shakespeare means to them, and the wider culture today […]
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In their own idiosyncratic ways, academic Shakespeare journals are a way of charting the history of the analysis of Shakespeare’s legacy. Shakespeare Survey, the journal I edit for Cambridge University Press, uses a distinctly uncommon form for the title of an academic journal. There isn’t, as far as I know, a Wordsworth Survey or Chaucer […]
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Michelle M. Dowd looks at how Shakespeare tackled the everyday issue at the time, and how that adds to his legacy today.
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Shakespeare’s works have provided fertile ground for reimagining the nature of the book, from illustration, to typography, to format, to binding, to other aspects of physical form. The various forms of books have shaped our experience of Shakespeare, and so, in turn, have Shakespeare’s works influenced the forms that books have taken. That mutual relationship […]
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Fiona Ritchie explores how women connect with the works of Shakespeare and have used them to make their voices heard throughout the ages
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