World-wide Shakespeares

An international team of leading scholars explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at 'local' Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between 'centre' and 'periphery', and 'big-time' and 'small-time' Shakespeares. Their specialist knowledges of local cultures and traditions make the range of appropriations newly accessible-and newly fascinating-for world-wide readers. Drawing upon debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production and on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the 'cultural field', the contributors together demonstrate a significant new approach to intercultural appropriations of Shakespeare. Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, "World-Wide Shakespeares" represents a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance, within and beyond Anglophone cultural centres.

ISBN 0415324564   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780415324564 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 331 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 19 Jul 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress PR2880.A1   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 822.33   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

1		Defining local Shakespeares by Sonia Massai		3
2		A branch of the Blue Nile : Derek Walcott and the tropic of Shakespeare by Tobias Doring		15
3		Political Pericles by Suzanne Gossett		23
4		Shylock as crypto-Jew : a new Mexican adaptation of The merchant of Venice by Elizabeth Klein and Michael Shapiro		31
5		Negotiating intercultural spaces : Much ado about nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese stage by Ruru Li		40
6		'It is the bloody business which informs thus...' : local politics and performative praxis, Macbeth in India by Poonam Trivedi		47
7		Relocating and dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua's Twelfth night and Alexander Morfov's The tempest by Boika Sokolova		57
8		'I am not bound to please thee with my answers' : The merchant of Venice on the post-war German stage by Sabine Schulting		65
9		Katherina 'humanized' : abusing the shrew on the Prague stage by Marcela Kostihova		72
10		Shooting the hero : the cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser by Tom Hoenselaars		80
11		Lamentable tragedy or black comedy? : Friedrich Durrenmatt's adaptation of Titus Andronicus by Lukas Erne		88
12		Subjection and redemption in Pasolini's Othello by Sonia Massai		95
13		'Meaning by Shakespeare' south of the border by Alfredo Michel Modenessi		104
14		Dreams of England by Robert Shaughnessy		112
15		The cultural logic of 'correcting' The merchant of Venice by Maria Jones		122
16		Dancing with art : Robert Lepage's Elsinore by Margaret Jane Kidnie		133
17		Hekepia? : the Mana of the Maori Merchant by Mark Houlahan		141
18		The haiku Macbeth : Shakespearean antithetical minimalism in Kurosawa's Kumonosu-jo by Saviour Catania		149
19		Afterword by Barbara Hodgdon		157