{"id":8487,"date":"2022-11-30T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8487"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:43:00","slug":"aditi-kapil-about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8487","title":{"rendered":"Brian Carroll: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Click here to listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Carroll is a Professor of Communication and Chair of the Communication Department<\/a> at Berry College<\/a>, He has just published Shakespeare\u2019s Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a dozen years in development, the book searches Shakespeare\u2019s history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. According to Carroll, the mes\u00adsages of Shakespeare\u2019s history plays are not prin\u00adcipally the plots or \u201cfacts\u201d of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audi\u00adences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll\u2019s 8th book argues that Shakespeare\u2019s histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By applying semiotics, the book studies the play\u00adwright\u2019s use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shake\u00adspeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, con\u00adtested, and circulated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Carroll is a Professor of Communication and Chair of the Communication Department<\/a> at Berry College<\/a>, He has just published Shakespeare\u2019s Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a dozen years in development, the book searches Shakespeare\u2019s history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. According to Carroll, the mes\u00adsages of Shakespeare\u2019s history plays are not prin\u00adcipally the plots or \u201cfacts\u201d of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audi\u00adences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll\u2019s 8th book argues that Shakespeare\u2019s histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By applying semiotics, the book studies the play\u00adwright\u2019s use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shake\u00adspeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, con\u00adtested, and circulated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book officially launches at the Wooden O Symposium<\/a> at the Utah Shakespeare Festival<\/a> in Cedar City, Utah, in early August. Carroll<\/a> has chaired the Department of Communication since 2015; he joined the Berry faculty in 2003. He is the author of eight books, including two on the history of Black press involvement in the integration of baseball: When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2007) and A Devil’s Bargain: The Black Press and Black Baseball 1915-1955<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book officially launches at the Wooden O Symposium<\/a> at the Utah Shakespeare Festival<\/a> in Cedar City, Utah, in early August. Carroll<\/a> has chaired the Department of Communication since 2015; he joined the Berry faculty in 2003. He is the author of eight books, including two on the history of Black press involvement in the integration of baseball: When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2007) and A Devil’s Bargain: The Black Press and Black Baseball 1915-1955<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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