Background
Henderson, Diana Elizabeth was born on November 26, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Donald Graham and Alaine (Marsh) Henderson.
("Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Sh...)
"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces―political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical―that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative play begin."―from the IntroductionFocusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, Collaborations with the Past illuminates not only the playwright's work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic process. By concentrating on rich yet problematic instances of Shakespeare's reanimation in such quintessentially modern forms as the novel and film, from Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, Diana E. Henderson sketches a complex history of the pleasures and difficulties that ensue when Shakespeare and modern artists collaborate.Working with texts across the entire range of Shakespeare's career, Henderson demonstrates―through detailed analyses of novels including Jane Eyre and Mrs. Dalloway as well as filmed, televised, and staged performances―that art (even in the newest media) cannot avoid collaborating with the past. Only by studying that collaborative process can we comprehend Shakespeare and Anglo-American culture.
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Henderson, Diana Elizabeth was born on November 26, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Donald Graham and Alaine (Marsh) Henderson.
Bachelor, College William and Mary, 1979. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1980. Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1983.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1989.
Instructor humanities Columbia College, New York City, 1985-1986. Instructor English Middlebury College, Vermont, 1986—1989, assistant professor, since 1989, co-chair women's studies program, 1991—1993. Associate professor literature Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996—2006, professor lit, since 2006, secretary faculty, since 2005.
Member editorial board Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1989—1991. Co-chair Harvard Humanities Center.
("Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Sh...)
Member American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association, National Organization of Women, Shakespeare Association of America, Amnesty International, Phi Beta Kappa.