Martin / Scheil Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama

Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-8991-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Randall

Scheil, Katherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPART I. Shakespeare and Modern DramaChapter 1: Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass and Brecht
Peter HollandChapter 2: Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx
Hersh ZeifmanChapter 3: West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism
Andrea MostChapter 4: Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair and Stage Beauty
Margaret Jane KidnieChapter 5: Macbeth and Modern Politics
John H. AstingtonChapter 6: Shakespeare as Memoir
Katherine ScheilChapter 7: 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario Merchant
Robert Ormsby
PART II. ShakespeareChapter 8: 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word be looked
upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two
James C. BulmanChapter 9: Extremes of Passion
Stanley WellsChapter 10: Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature
Alexander LeggattChapter 11: Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest
Randall MartinChapter 12: Lear's conversation with the philosopher
Hanna Scolnicov
PART III. Modern DramaChapter 13: An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady and the Pursuit of Happiness
Alan AckermanChapter 14: 'The Going To Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes On Tennessee Williams' Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961)
Brian ParkerChapter 15: 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in Shaw, Coward, and Pinter
Rebecca S. CameronAfterword: A Tapestry of Thanks: Reflections on the Work of Jill L. Levenson
Jane FreemanJill L. Levenson's PublicationsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

MartinRandall:
Randall Martin is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.ScheilKatherine:
Katherine Scheil is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.