The Duke's Man

Ellington, Shakespeare, and Jazz Adaptation

Authors

  • Terence Hawkes Cardiff University

Abstract

Professor Hawkes provides an introduction to the cluster of essays on Duke Ellington and Shakespeare.

Author Biography

Terence Hawkes, Cardiff University

Terence Hawkes is Emeritus Professor of English at Cardiff University. He is the General Editor of the Accents on Shakespeare series, and of the New Accents series. He is also the author of Metaphor (1972), Structuralism and Semiotics (1977, 2003), Shakespeare and the Reason (1964, 2005), Shakespeare's Talking Animals (1973), That Shakespeherian Rag (1986, 2005), Meaning By Shakespeare (1992), Shakespeare: King Lear (1995) and Shakespeare in the Present (2002).

Issue cover with text: B&L Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005. Image: black and white etching of Shakespeare in western wear.

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Published

2005-05-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2005): Shakespeare in the American South

Section

Articles