The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Volume 10: Special Section, the Achievement of Robert Weimann
Herausgeber: Schalkwyk, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares," which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre of romance, and other topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9781409408581
• ISBN-10: 1409408582
• Artikelnr.: 47770755

Autorenporträt

Graham Bradshaw is based at Chuo University, Japan. Tom Bishop is based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. David Schalkwyk is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part I Special Section: 'European Shakespeares', Edited by Ton
Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo: Introduction: European Shakespeare - quo
vadis?, Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo; The chore and the passion:
Shakespeare and graduation in mid-20th century Portugal, Rui Carvalho
Homem; Henry V and the Anglo-Greek alliance in World War II, Tina
Krontiris; Asian Shakespeares in Europe: from the unfamiliar to the
defamiliarised, Alexander C.Y. Huang; Rearticulating a culture of links:
Peter Brook's European Shakespeare, Fran Rayner; Shakespeare uprooted: the
BBC and ShakespeareRe-Told (2005), Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars; The
anti-Americanism of EU Shakespeare, Douglas Bruster; Shakespeare and France
in the European mirror, Jean-Christophe Mayer. Part II Shapes of Character:
Man's chief good: the Shakespearean character as evaluator, Mustapha Fahmi;
'I have no other but a woman's reason': folly, femininity and sexuality in
Renaissance discourses and Shakespeare's plays, Paromita Chakravarti. Part
III Shapes of Romance: Shipwreck and ecology: towards a structural theory
of Shakespeare and romance, Steve Mentz; Great miracle or lying wonder:
Janus-faced romance in Pericles, Tiffany J. Werth; 'Better days': cultural
memory in As You Like It, Indira Ghose. Part IV Review Essays:
(Re)presenting Shakespeare's co-authors: lessons from the Oxford
Shakespeare, Tom Rooney; Inventing the human: brontosaurus Bloom and 'the
Shakespeare in us', Laurence Wright; Bibliography; Index.