Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gerzic, Marina; Norrie, Aidan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new 'Shakespeares' to emerge, revealing Shakespeare's ongoing impact in popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000073126
• Artikelnr.: 59357801

Autorenporträt

Marina Gerzic works for the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Inc., and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia in both research and administration roles, and is the editorial assistant for the academic journals Parergon and Shakespeare Bulletin. She is the editor, with Aidan Norrie, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge), and has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and children's literature. Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and a Chancellor's International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. Aidan is the editor, with Marina Gerzic, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge); with Lisa Hopkins, of Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press); and, with Mark Houlahan, of New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections (Medieval Institute Publications). Aidan is currently working on a monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule, which is forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Did Shakespeare really write this racy stuff?": Playfulness in
Shakespearean Adaptations Section 1: Page to Stage / Stage to Page Page to
Stage / Stage to Page 2. "This great stage of fools": Anachronisms and
Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear 3. "Covering the main
points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed 4. "I wish
the bastards dead": Adapting Richard III in Children's Literature 5.
Playing with Genre and Form: The "Magic Art" of Graphic Novel Adaptation in
Shakespeare 6. When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and
Adaptation in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters Section 2: Practising
Shakespeare On Stage and Screen Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen
7. Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic 8. An
Irreverent richard III redux: [Re]cripping the Crip Section 3: Adapting the
Man Adapting the Man 9. Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary
Shakespeare 'Origin Story' 10. William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The
Special Relationship? Section 4: Adapting the Plays Adapting the Plays 11.
Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism 12. Sport, Meritocracy, and
Shakespeare 13. "What's in a gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and
Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet