Collection(s) : Anthony Burgess centre series
Paru le 30/05/2012 | Broché 153 pages
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Marlowe, Shakespeare, Burgess
Anthony Burgess and his Elizabethan Affiliations
Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were twin stars in Anthony Burgess's intellectual and artistic firmament. Inspired by them he wrote and composed abundantly, from his dissertation on Marlowe's Dr Faustus as a student at the University of Manchester to the last novel published in his lifetime, A Dead Man in Deptford. On Shakespeare he was prolific : two novels - Nothing Like the Sun and Enderby's Dark Lady - a biography, short stories, journalistic articles and scholarly chapters, a film script, a television series, a symphony and songs inspired by his plays, even a ballet suite for full orchestra about the career of Shakespeare, Mr W.S. performed for the first time in November 2010 during the fourth international symposium of the Anthony Burgess Centre at the University of Angers.
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Burgess : Anthony Burgess and his Elizabethan Affiliations is a collection of papers from that symposium with contributions from Katherine Adamson, Andrew Biswell, Gareth Farmer, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Aude Haffen, Jonathan Mann, Charles Nicholl, Alan Shockley, Rob Spence, and Teodora Wiesnmayer. Paul Phillips and Pascal Terrien each examine aspects of Burgess's Shakespeare ballet, the synopsis of which is published here for the first time.
The editor, Graham Woodroffe, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Angers, is Director of the Anthony Burgess Centre founded by Ben Forkner in 1998. Main organizer of the symposium and of the first performance of Mr W.S., he is editor of Anthony Burgess, Autobiographer (2006) and co-editor, with Emmanuel Vernadakis, of « Portraits of the Artist in A Clockwork Orange » (2003), both in the Anthony Burgess Centre Series published by the Presses de l'Université d'Angers.
