Six characters in search of Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Shakespearian mythos.
| Publisher | Mythopoeic Society |
| Publication | Mythlore |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0146-9339 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Neil Gaiman |
| Person | Works | Neil Gaiman |
| Author | n/a | John Pendergast |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | William Shakespeare |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
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WHAT IS THE BEST MODERN ANALOGY for understanding the nature of Shakespeare's theater--is it television, with its democratic appeal and focus on popular entertainment? Or is it film, which shares with theater a marriage of sound and vision, but which sometimes rises to the level of art which television rarely does? Or, nostalgically, is it radio, which necessitates that listeners use their imagination to visualize what is not presented in the same manner as Shakespeare's theater asks viewers to imagine they are in Greece or Italy or Agincourt? I would like to suggest a fourth...
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