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Shakespeare, Brecht, and the intercultural sign / Antony Tatlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tatlow, Antony.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Brecht, Bertolt.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Asia.
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Appreciation--Asia.
- Intercultural communication in literature.
- Intercultural communication.
- Theater--Asia--History.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines Asian staging of Western canonical theater, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.
- Contents:
- 1. Reading the intercultural: cultures of reading
- 2. Intercultural signs: textual anthropology
- 3. Desire, laughter, and the social unconscious
- 4. Historicizing the unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean farce
- 5. Coriolanus and the historical text
- 6. Macbath in Kunju opera
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903755
- 9781282903753
- 1282903756
- 9780822380894
- 0822380897
- OCLC:
- 508297443
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