| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction; Sarah Annes Brown, Robert I. Lublin and Lynsey McCulloch -- PART I: POPULAR CULTURE. 2. Hamlet: Looking Before and After: Why So Many Prequels and Sequels? / Ann Thompson ; 3. Educating for Pleasure: The Textual Relations of She's the Man / Reina Green ; 4. 'Brush up your Shakespeare': Genre-shift from Shakespeare to the Screen / Kinga Földváry ; 5. Cinematizing Shakespeare / Charles Marowitz -- PART II: CRITICISM AND CREATIVITY. 6. Circulating through 'languages and tales': Stephen Greenblatt's Cardenio / Theodora Papadopoulou ; 7. Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare the Biography and Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World, or Facts and Fiction about William Shakespeare / Urszula Kizelbach ; 8. The Weird Sisters (from The Life and Death of the BRothers Macbeth) / Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey ; 9. 'You kiss like in a movie': A Contemporary Translation/Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet / Pietro Deandrea -- PART III: NATIONAL RESPONSES. 10. At the Threshold: Remembrance and Topicality in Recent Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany / Zeno Ackermann ; 11. Kabuki Shakespeare: The NINAGAWA Twelfth Night / Seiji Furuya ; 12. 'Downright unsaxogrammatical'? : Do Postcolonial Adaptations Contest, or Reinforce Shakespeare's Canonical Status? / Jenni Ramone ; 13 . 'My dream was lengthened after life': Ghosts in Michael Boyd's History Cycle / Kate Wilkinson -- PART III: VISUALISING PERFORMANCE. 14. 'Four legs and two voices': An Interview with Édouard Lekston / Pascale Drouet ; 15. Shakespearean Visual Semiotics and the Silver Screen / Robert I. Lublin ; 16. 'Here's that shall make you dance': Movement and Meaning in Bern:Ballett's Julia und Romeo / Lynsey McCulloch -- PART IV: NON-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA. 17. The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby's Quietus / Rowland Wymer ; 18. The Act of Murder: Renaissance Tragedy and the Detective Novel / Esme Miskimmin ; 19. Fishing at the Swan: Swan Theatre Plays and the Shaping of an Interpretive Community / Laura Grace Godwin |
| Summary |
The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries continue to inspire fresh interpretations in every genre and medium. "Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance" offers new perspectives on the ways in which writers, critics, directors, artists, and other creative practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address current concerns and reach new audiences. As well as exploring the fortunes of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in more expected contexts, such as film and theatre, these essays examine the relationship between the plays and new social media, detective fiction, translation, ballet, and illustration. The collection also reconsiders the boundary which separates critical and creative responses to Shakespeare by including explorations of 'creativity' in Shakespeare's biographers, as well as a creative revisioning of "Macbeth". Written by an international team of scholars, this accessible and innovative volume will provide a valuable resource for all readers and researchers interested in the creative reception of Renaissance English drama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-319) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL platform, viewed July 28, 2014) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. nta |
| Subject |
18.05 English literature.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Contemporaries
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Theater
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Sarah Annes, editor.
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Lublin, Robert I., editor.
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McCulloch, Lynsey, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137319401 |
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1137319402 |
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