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Shakespeare and appropriation / edited by Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Accents on Shakespeare.
- Accents on Shakespeare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Television adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Imitation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 240p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put int
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; General editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Christy Desmet; Alas, poor Shakespeare! I knew him well Ivo Kamps; Entry on Q Terence Hawkes; Romancing the Bard Laurie E.Osborne; Moor or less? The surveillance of Othello, Calcutta 1848 Sudipto Chatterjee and Jyotsna G.Singh; Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres Caroline Cakebread; Signifyin' on The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day James R.Andreas, Sr.; Accommodating the virago: Nineteenth-century representations of Lady Macbeth Georgianna Ziegler
- The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning Robert SawyerThe displaced body of desire: Sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet Lisa S.Starks; Disney cites Shakespeare: The limits of appropriation Richard Finkelstein; Afterword: The incredible shrinking Bard Gary Taylor; Further reading Matt Kozusko; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-62261-9
- 0-203-21892-2
- 1-134-62262-7
- 1-280-18279-2
- 9780203218921
- OCLC:
- 50572930
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