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| Author | : Marianne Novy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Feminism and literature |
| ISBN | : 9780333947005 |
A number of 20th century women writers, directors and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays. This book examines feminist rewritings of Shakespeare.
| Author | : Ruth Nevo |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780415352703 |
In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed.
| Author | : Shaun O'Toole |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2004-06-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134448732 |
Transforming Texts: considers why language changes, and how we transform it covers the key factors we need to take into account when transforming texts, including audience, register, mode, historical period, source and genre explores a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Macbeth and Sense and Sensibility to Fever Pitch and The Bill offers a step-by-step guide to re-writing text; can be used as both a course text and a revision tool. Written by an experienced teacher, author and AS and A2 examiner, Transforming Texts is an essential resource for all students of AS and A2 level English Language and English Language and Literature.
| Author | : George H. Weinberg |
| Publisher | : St Martins Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780312147648 |
Using Shakespeare's insights into life, the authors have written a self-help guide on such topics as "Finding Romeo--Recognizing Love When You See It" and "Lear's Blindness--How Not To Be Old Before Your Time."
| Author | : Michael Dobson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2017-06-23 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1443878707 |
Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeare’s plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dramatist or another over the last half century? Among other key figures, Edward Bond, Heiner Müller, Carmelo Bene, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard, Howard Barker, Botho Strauss, Tim Crouch, Bernard Marie Koltès, and Normand Chaurette have all put their radical originality into the service of adapting four-century-old classics. The resulting works provide food for thought on issues such as Shakespearean role-playing, narrative and structural re-shuffling. Across the world, new writers have questioned the political implications and cultural stakes of repeating Shakespeare with and without a difference, finding inspiration in their own national experiences and in the different ordeals they have undergone. How have our contemporaries carried out their rewritings, and with what aims? Can we still play Hamlet, for instance, as Dieter Lesage asks in his book bearing this title, or do we have to “kill Shakespeare” as Normand Chaurette implies in a work where his own creative process is detailed? What do these rewritings really share with their sources? Are they meaningful only because of Shakespeare’s shadow haunting them? Where do we draw the lines between “interpretation,” “adaptation” and “rewriting”? The contributors to this collection of essays examine modern rewritings of Shakespeare from both theoretical and pragmatic standpoints. Key questions include: can a rewriting be meaningful without the reader’s or spectator’s already knowing Shakespeare? Do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare’s texts or curate them? Does the survival of Shakespeare in the theatrical repertory actually depend on the continued dramatization of our difficult encounters with these potentially obsolete scripts represented by rewriting?
| Author | : John G. Demaray |
| Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780871697752 |
This is a print on demand publication.
| Author | : Michele Marrapodi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2016-04-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317056442 |
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.
| Author | : Marianne Novy |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780252061141 |
| Author | : Phyllis Frus |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2010-03-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786455780 |
Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.
| Author | : Daniel Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1838714081 |
From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.
