| Description |
xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Accents on Shakespeare |
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Accents on Shakespeare.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Christy Desmet -- Pt. 1. Appropriation in theory. 1. Alas, poor Shakespeare! I knew him well / Ivo Kamps. 2. Entry on Q / Terence Hawkes. 3. Romancing the Bard / Laurie E. Osborne. 4. Moor or less? The surveillance of Othello, Calcutta 1848 / Sudipto Chatterjee and Jyotsna G. Singh -- Pt. 2. Appropriation in practice. 5. Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres / Caroline Cakebread. 6. Signifyin' on The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / James R. Andreas, Sr. 7. Accommodating the virago: Nineteenth-century representations of Lady Macbeth / Georgianna Ziegler. 8. The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning / Robert Sawyer. 9. The displaced body of desire: Sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Lisa S. Starks. 10. Disney cites Shakespeare: The limits of appropriation / Richard Finkelstein. 11. Afterword: The incredible shrinking Bard / Gary Taylor -- Further reading / Matt Kozusko |
| Summary |
The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put int |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-227) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Filmand video adaptations
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Imitation in literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Author |
Desmet, Christy, 1954-
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Sawyer, Robert, 1953-
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| LC no. |
99031115 |
| ISBN |
0415207258 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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0415207266 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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(cased) |
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