Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen

2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-57955-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopkins, Lisa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction The West Coast: Clueless and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The East Coast: Jane Austen in Manhattan and Hamlet, dir. Michael Almereyda Across the Pond: In the Bleak Midwinter and Bridget Jones's Diary Across the Ocean: Bride and Prejudice and Shakespeare Wallah Modernity: Shakespeare Retold, the ITV Jane Austen Season, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice and Becoming Jane Conclusion Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

LISA HOPKINS is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and co-editor of , the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Her previous publications include (2008) and (2005).