Transforming Shakespeare : contemporary women's re-visions in literature and performance / edited by Marianne Novy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novy, Marianne, 1945-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English drama--Adaptations.

English drama.

American literature--Women authors.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1950-.

English drama--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Women theatrical producers and directors.

American literature--English influences.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

A surprisingly large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late twentieth century. For example, Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, which rewrites King Lear, and Marina Warner's Indigo, which rewrites The Tempest, protest biases against women and racist and imperialist attitudes that Shakespeare's plays have come to symbolize. In this collection, feminist critics -- and Jane Smiley herself -- explore a range of such rewritings, as well as recent Shakespeare performances directed by women. The essays examine how these works use rewritings of Shakespeare to address issues of gender, race, sexuality, colonialism, environmentalism, class, and nationalism, as well as with the general question of our relation to cultural tradition at the start of the new millennium. Transforming Shakespeare offers a striking new look at Shakespeare and his place in a modern, diverse world.

Contents:

1. Making it New: Katie Mitchell Refashions Shakespeare-History / Barbara Hodgdon 13

2. Recent Australian Shrews: The "Larrikin Element" / Penny Gay 35

3. A Girl's Got to Eat: Christine Edzard's Film of As You Like It / Patricia Lennox 51

4. Saving Desdemona and/or Ourselves: Plays by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Paula Vogel / Marianne Novy 67

5. Rita Dove's Shakespeares / Peter Erickson 87

6. Cleopatra as Diva: African-American Women and Shakespearean Tactics / Francesca T. Royster 103

7. The Polluted Quarry: Nature and Body in A Thousand Acres / Barbara Mathieson 127

8. King Lear and A Thousand Acres: Gender, Genre, and the Revisionary Impulse / Iska Alter 145

9. Shakespeare in Iceland / Jane Smiley 159

10. "Out of Shakespeare"?: Cordelia in Cat's Eye / Suzanne Raitt 181

11. Tempest Plainsong: Retuning Caliban's Curse / Diana Brydon 199

12. Sycorax Speaks: Marina Warner's Indigo and The Tempest / Caroline Cakebread 217

13. Claribel at Palace Dot Tunis / Linda Bamber 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312214723

OCLC:

39786626