Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures

by P. Aebischer (Editor), E. Esche (Editor), N. Wheale (Editor)

Overview

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, post-colonial 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403912664
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/12/2003
Series:	Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

PAROMITA CHAKRAVARTI Teaches English at the University of Jadavpur, Calcutta, India JEAN CHOTHIA Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and Senior Lecturer in the Cambridge University Faculty of English, UK SUSANNE GREENHALGH Senior Lecturer in Drama at Roehampton University of Surrey, UK BARBARA HODGDON Adjunct Professor of English and Drama at the University of Michigan, USA PETER NOVAK Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of San Francisco, USA ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK CATHERINE SILVERSTONE Completed a DPhil thesis on Shakespeare and Performance at the University of Sussex, UK KAY H. SMITH Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, USA POONAM TRIVEDI Reader in English, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India RAMONA WRAY Lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast, UK

Table of Contents

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