Year of Shakespeare [PDF ebook] 
Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival

A Year of Shakespeare 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.A Year of Shakespeare provides: a ground-breaking collection of Shakespearean reviews, covering all of the Festival’s productions; a dynamic visual record through a wide range of production photographs; incisive analysis of the Festival’s significance in the wider context of the Cultural Olympiad 2012.All the world really is a stage, and it’s time for curtain-up