World-Wide Shakespeares

Local Appropriations in Film and Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-32455-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world.

In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at ‘local’ Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares.

Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massai, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.