Remaking Shakespeare

Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

AvP. Aebischer,E. Esche,N. Wheale,Edward J. Esche,Nigel Wheale

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This collection focuses on contemporary remakings of Shakespeare in a variety of contexts and textual forms. Located at the intersection of Shakespeare studies, performance studies, postcolonial criticism and cultural studies, the essays address the question of how Shakespeare's plays affect and are affected by their environments as they are transposed into a variety of media, cultures, geographical locations, genres and historical moments. The volume includes articles on Shakespeare in American sign language, theatre, film, screenplay, music, documentary and soap opera.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-08-12
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Shakespeare Studies
Antal sidor214
Upplaga2003
FörlagPalgrave USA
ISBN9781403912664

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PASCALE AEBISCHER is a Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (forthcoming in 2004) and the co-editor of Personation and Performance: Staging the Early Modern Subject (2003). She has published essays on drama theory, restoration comedy and Henry Coreen. - EDWARD J. ESCHE is a Principal Lecturer in English and Drama at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. His previous publications include an edition of Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris (Clarendon Press, 1998) and Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance (Ashgate, 2000). He also organized the first (1987) and second (2001) SCAENA conferences at St John's College, Cambridge. - NIGEL WHEALE's previous publications include The Postmodern Arts (Routledge, 1995) and Writing and Society: Literacy, Print and Politics, Britain 1590-1660 (Routledge, 1999).

Introduction: Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures; P.Aebischer and N.Wheale Shakespeare in the Fourth Dimension: Twelfth Night and American Sign Language; P.Novak Modernity, Post-Coloniality and Othello: The Case of Saptapadi; P.Chakravarti Reading 'Other Shakespeares'; P.Trivedi Othello's Travels in New Zealand: Shakespeare, Race and National Identity; C.Silverstone 'Alas poor country!': Documenting the Politics of Performance in Two British Television Macbeths Since the 1980s; S.Greenhalgh Julius Caesar in Interesting Times; J.Chothia Will! Or Shakespeare in Hollywood: Anthony Burgess's Cinematic Presentation of Shakespearean Biography; K.H.Smith The Singing Shakespearean: Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and the Politics of Genre; R.Wray Romeo and Juliet: The Rock and Roll Years; R.Shaughnessy Re-Incarnations; B.Hodgdon Index