Women talk back to Shakespeare : contemporary adaptations and appropriations / Jo Eldridge Carney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carney, Jo Eldridge, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New interdisciplinary approaches to early modern culture: confluences and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

English literature.

Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries.

Women and literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English literature--Women authors.

English-speaking countries.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women - either authors or their characters - talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers-novelists, playwrights, and poets-have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his work. Thus far, feminist scholarship has examined creative responses to Shakespeare by women writers through the late twentieth century. This book brings together the "then" of Shakespeare with the "now" of contemporary literature by examining how many of his plays have cultural currency in the present day. Adoption and surrogate childrearing; gender fluidity; global pandemics; imprisonment and criminal justice; the intersection of misogyny and racism - these are all pressing social and political concerns, but they are also issues that are central to Shakespeare's plays and the early modern period. By approaching material with a fresh interdisciplinary perspective, Women Talk Back to Shakespeare is an excellent tool for both scholars and students concerned with adaptation, women and gender, and intertextuality of Shakespeare's plays"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Toni Morrison and Rokia Traore's Desdcmona and William Shakespeare's Othello

2. Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's Daughter and William Shakespeare's The Tempest

3. Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed and William Shakespeare's Hie Tempest

4. Jeanette Winterson's 77je Gap of Time and William Shakespeare's Hie Winter's Tale

5. Mark Haddon's The Porpoise and William Shakespeare's Pericles

6. Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and William Shakespeare's King Lear

7. Maggie O'Fan-ell's Hamnet and Shakespeare's family in fact and fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Carney, Jo Eldridge, 1954- Women talk back to Shakespeare

ISBN:

9780367763527

0367763524

9780367763510

0367763516

OCLC:

1251742069