Unsettled Shakespeares

The Work of Adaptation in an Unstable World
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-40542-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Global Shakespeares

Unsettled Shakespeares argues that adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays world-wide engage actively with the age of unsettlement: a social and political reality shaped by several global traumas and disruptions in the last few years. Taking ideas of unsettledness and unsettlement as a point of departure, it contends that such adaptations execute a vital role—and have a unique utility—in canvassing possibilities for global justice. The contributors to this original collection explore the ways in which recent adaptations converse with the plays to debate the unsettled condition, whether this expresses itself in the recuperative potentialities of theatre in conflict situations; in the place of Indigenous studies and the role of translation; in the effects of diaspora in Asia, India, Ireland, Europe and the US; in the workings of gender, sexuality and race inside unsettled ideologies; in the movement of actors and, crucially, in the transmission of the Shakespearean text.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mookherjee, Taarini

McHugh, Emer

Thornton Burnett, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Unsettling Adaptation and Performance.- Chapter 1: ‘“Quite confound distinction”: Unsettling Mixedness, Adaptation, and Translation.- Chapter 2: Unsettling Whiteness: Shakespeare, Mixed-Race Identities, and Contemporary Casting Practices.- Chapter 3: Unsettling Shakespeare’s Archive in Galopa y Corta el Viento / Gallops and Cuts through the Wind (1980 and 1985).- Chapter 4: When Shylock Isn’t Jewish: Unsettlement, Mobility, and Justice in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice.- Part II: Environmental Unsettlement.- Chapter 5: ‘“Something’s amiss upon my beach”: Twelfth Night and Climate Change.- Chapter 6: How Waste Unsettles: We That Are Young, Ecocide, and Dirt.- Chapter 7: The “best comforter / To an unsettled fancy”: Asian Shakespeares / Cinematic Adaptations.- Chapter 8: Unsettling Tempests in the Anthropocene: Post-Apocalyptic Retreats for the Super-Rich and a Romance of Ecofeminist Care.- Part III: Placing and Displacing Unsettlement.- Chapter 9: This Land: The Geographies of Irish Shakespeares.- Chapter 10: Unsettled Tales / Tales of Unsettlement: Kalyan Ray’s Eastwords as Shakespearean Adaptation.- Chapter 11: Cicatrices en Shakespeare Fronterizo: Violence and Healing in Borderlands Shakespeare Appropriations.- Epilogue: Setting it right.

Über Autor(innen)

Taarini Mookherjee is a literary scholar and educator whose research fields include global Shakespeare, postcolonial theory, early modern drama, and theatre and performance studies. She is the author of Nationhood and Identity in Indian Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1989-2020 (2026) and has published widely on Shakespeare and adaptation.

Emer McHugh is an Irish writer and theatre historian who lives in Belfast. She is Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast, and has published widely on Irish Shakespeare performance and actors’ histories. She is the author of Irish Shakespeares: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the Twenty-First Century (2016).

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of Shakespeare and World Cinema (2023) and ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema (2019), and the co-editor of Women and Indian Shakespeares (2022).