Free Will [Paperback]

Harold Rhenisch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Harold Rhenisch brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive work fusing drama, poetry and consummate clowning. In these alternately satiric and elegiac poems, Rhenisch gives us the world as a tragi-comic theatre in a provocative vision of human intelligence and transformation. Along the way, Rhenisch teases truth, recasts Shakespeare’s major tragedies so they focus on their women, and puts on and takes off masks, always with the goal of freeing Will Shakespeare and releasing the passion of the poetic and dramatic traditions from the cloak of habit. This is Rhenisch the trickster at his best, in poems that both renew the lyrical and satiric traditions, and move them into a new sense of myth and light-footed irony.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Obsessive and dark, Free Will twins Shakespeare with Fellini...this is a cultural ragbag, exuberant, vicious and tender." -- Marilyn Bowering

About the Author

Terry Glavin is a BC author and journalist whose writing has appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including a regular column in the Georgia Straight. His writing about aboriginal people has earned him several regional and national journalism awards. He is currently the editor of the Transmontanus books series, as well as adjunct professor in the fine arts department of the University of British Columbia. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press; First edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1553800133
• ISBN-13: 978-1553800132
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,146,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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