World-Wide Shakespeares (eBook, ePUB)

Local Appropriations in Film and Performance
Redaktion: Massai, Sonia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World-Wide Shakespeares brings together an international team of leading scholars in order to explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134345830
• Artikelnr.: 38260305

Autorenporträt

Sonia Massai is a Lecturer at King's College London. She has published articles on Shakespearean appropriations and edited Titus Andronicus (New Penguin) and The Wise Woman of Hoxton (Globe Quartos). Her current projects include a book on Shakespeare and the Rise of English Drama in Print.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining Local Shakespeares Part One: Local Shakespeares for Local
Audiences 2. A Branch of the Blue Nile: Derek Walcott and the Tropic of
Shakespeare 3. Political Pericles 4. 'Shylock as Crypto-Jew: A New Mexican
Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice' 5. Negotiating Intercultural Spaces:
Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese Stage 6. 'It is
the bloody business which informs thus ... ' Local Politics and
Performative Praxis: Macbeth in India Part Two: Local Shakespeares for
National Audiences 7. Relocating and Dislocating Shakespeare in Robert
Sturua's Twelfth Night and Alexander Morfov's The Tempest 8. 'I am not
bound to please thee with my answers': The Merchant of Venice on the German
Stage 9. Abusing the Shrew on the Prague stage 10. 'Shooting the Hero: The
Cinematic Career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser' 11.
Lamentable Tragedy or Black Comedy: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Adaptation of
Titus Andronicus 12. Subjection and Redemption in Pasolini's Othello 13.
'Meaning by Shakespeare' South of the Border 14. Dreams of England 15. The
Cultural Logic of 'Correcting' The Merchant of Venice Part Three: Local
Shakespeare for International Audiences 16. Dancing with Art: Robert
Lepage's Hamlet 17. Hekepia? The Mana of the Maori Merchant 18. The Haiku
Macbeth: Shakespearean Antithetical Minimalism in Kurosawa's Kumonosu-jo