Performing Shakespearean Appropriations

Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet
Herausgeber: Ciraulo, Darlena; Sawyer, Robert; Kozusko, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare's afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.

Produktdetails

• Shakespeare and the Stage
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781683933601
• ISBN-10: 1683933605
• Artikelnr.: 64057331

Autorenporträt

Matthew Kozusko is professor of English at Ursinus College. Darlena Ciraulo is professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. Robert Sawyer is professor of English at East Tennessee State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Robert Sawyer, Foreword
Darlena Ciraulo and Matthew Kozusko, "Introduction"
Part I: Past
Jonathan Baldo, "What's in a Game?: Handy-Dandy, War, and Foreign Relations
in King Lear"
Anne Williams, "Strawberry Hill: The House that Hamlet Built"
Katherine Scheil, "What's Past is Prologue: Shakespeare the Romantic"
Part II: Present
Darlena Ciraulo, "Shakespeare's Bust and the 1960s Batman TV Show"
Peter Holland, "On the Shakespeare Trail"
Richard Finkelstein, "Shakespeare in the Dorm: The Rhetoric of Character in
YouTube Shakespeare"
Matt Kozusko, "Why are Shakespeare's Characters so 'Relatable'?"
Part III: Future
Lisa S. Starks, "Levinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The
Merchant of Venice"
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare
Stephen O'Neill, "Quoting Machines: Shakespearean things in and beyond
HBO's Westworld"
Sharon O'Dair, "On Character, Character Criticism, and The King is Alive:
For Christy Desmet"
Sujata Iyengar, Afterword