Reinventing the Renaissance : Shakespeare and his contemporaries in adaptation and performance / edited by Sarah Brown, Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, Robert I. Lublin, Chair of Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and Lynsey McCulloch, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Coventry University, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Sarah Annes, editor.

Lublin, Robert I., editor.

McCulloch, Lynsey, 1974- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Contemporaries.

Contemporaries.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

xii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Sarah Annes Brown Brown, Sarah Annes, Robert I. Lublin Lublin, Robert I., Lynsey McCulloch McCulloch, Lynsey 1

Part I Popular Culture

2 Hamlet: Looking Before and After: Why So Many Prequels and Sequels? / Ann Thompson Thompson, Ann 17

3 Educating for Pleasure: The Textual Relations of She's the Man / Reina Green Green, Reina 32

4 'Brush up your Shakespeare': Genre-Shift from Shakespeare to the Screen / Kinga Földváry Földváry, Kinga 47

5 Cinematizing Shakespeare / Charles Marowitz Marowitz, Charles 63

Part II Criticism and Creativity

6 Circulating through 'languages and tales': Stephen Greenblatt's Cardenio / Theodora Papadopoulou Papadopoulou, Theodora 77

7 Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare the Biography and Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World, or Facts and Fiction about William Shakespeare / Urszula Kizelbach Kizelbach, Urszula 92

8 The Weird Sisters (from The Life and Death of the Brothers Macbeth) / Ewan Fernie Fernie, Ewan, Simon Palfrey Palfrey, Simon 104

9 'You kiss like in a movie': A Contemporary Translation/Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet / Pietro Deandrea Deandrea, Pietro 122

Part III National Responses

10 At the Threshold - Remembrance and Topicality in Recent Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany / Zeno Ackermann Ackermann, Zeno 143

11 Kabuki Shakespeare: The NINAGAWA Twelfth Night / Seiji Furuya Furuya, Seiji 162

12 'Downright unsaxogrammatical'? - Do Postcolonial Adaptations Contest, or Reinforce Shakespeare's Canonical Status? / Jenni Ramone Ramone, Jenni 174

13 'My dream was lengthened after life': Ghosts in Michael Boyd's History Cycle / Kate Wilkinson Wilkinson, Kate 193

Part IV Visualizing Performance

14 'Four legs and two voices': An Interview with Édouard Lekston / Pascale Drouet Drouet, Pascale 207

15 Shakespearean Visual Semiotics and the Silver Screen / Robert I. Lublin Lublin, Robert I. 242

16 'Here's that shall make you dance': Movement and Meaning in Bern: Ballett's Julia und Romeo / Lynsey McCulloch McCulloch, Lynsey 255

Part V Non-Shakespearean Drama

17 The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby's Quietus / Rowland Wymer Wymer, Rowland 271

18 The Act of Murder: Renaissance Tragedy and the Detective Novel / Esme Miskimmin Miskimmin, Esme 286

19 Fishing at the Swan: Swan Theatre Plays and the Shaping of an Interpretive Community / Laura Grace Godwin Godwin, Laura Grace 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230313859

023031385X

OCLC:

827256549