Sujata Iyengar

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars.

Each chapter also looks anew at a specific Shakespeare play from the perspective of a prevailing set of theories and metaphors. Having identified the key critics responsible for developing these metaphors and for framing the discussion in this way, Iyengar moves on to analyze afresh the implications of these critical frames for adaptation studies as a whole and for particular Shakespeare plays. Focusing each chapter around a different play, the book contrasts comic, tragic, and tragicomic modes in Shakespeare's oeuvre and within the major genres of adaptation (e.g., film, stage-production, novel and digital media).

Each chapter seasons its theoretical discussions with a lively sprinkling of allusions to Shakespeare - ranging from TikTok to tissue-boxes, from folios and fine arts to fan work. To conclude each chapter, the author provides a case-study of three or four significant and interesting adaptations from different genres or media. A glossary of terms compiled by Philip Gilreath and the author completes the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350073593
• Artikelnr.: 66368524

Autorenporträt

Sujata Iyengar is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA. She is author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Sources Used Introduction: Much Ado About Adaptation What or Whom are we Adapting? Metaphors We Adapt By Adaptation as Annotation in Much Ado 1. Plants
Off-shoots
Genes: Rhizomes Plants Off-shoots Genes Rhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests 2. Art
Property
Theft: Appropriation Art Property Theft Appropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona) 3. Fidelity
Families
Ethics: Derivatives Fidelity Families: Lear among the Editors Ethics and Editing Derivatives: Lear's Progeny 4. Transfer
Remediation
Broadcast: Intermedia Transfer Remediation Broadcast and Podcast Intermedia: Audio Hamlets 5. Memes
Networks
Fans: Transformations Memes Networks Fans Transformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night 6. Relocation
Translation
Hybridization: Tradaptation Relocation Translation Hybridization Tradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles 7. Accidents
Remains
Traces: Accommodations Accidents Remains Traces Accommodations: Romeo and Juliet Glossary of Selected Terms
Philip Gilreath with Sujata Iyengar Notes References Index