Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'.
Dancing Shakespeare is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of the dramatic story ballet in the eighteenth century to the present.
This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticism-that Shakespeare's excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his excellence as a poet.
Eugene O'Neill lived with the artist George Bellows in the early twentieth century; met Robert Henri, the leader of the future Ashcan School; and knew John Sloan, who etched O'Neill at the Lincoln Arcade studio on Upper Broadway.
