Playfulness in Shakespearean adaptations / edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerzic, Marina, editor.

Norrie, Aidan, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 41.

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Play in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Four hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new 'Shakespeares' to emerge, revealing Shakespeare's ongoing impact in popular culture. Significantly, this collection explores the role of play in the construction of meaning in Shakespearean adaptations-adaptations of both the works of Shakespeare, and of Shakespeare the man-and contributes to the growing scholarly interest in playfulness both past and present. The chapters in Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations engage with the diverse ways that play is used in Shakespearean adaptations on stage, screen, and page, examining how these adaptations draw out existing humour in Shakespeare's works, the ways that play is used as a pedagogical aid to help explain complex language, themes, and emotions found in Shakespeare's works, and more generally how play and playfulness can make Shakespeare 'relatable, ' 'relevant, ' and entertaining for successive generations of audiences and readers"--

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

5.1 A Scene From Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Issue 19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Image Courtesy of Dc Comics

7.1 Shakespeare Republic Season One Cast (L-R): Ben Steel, Michala Banas, Alan Fletcher, Rowena Hutson, Sally Mclean, and Billy Smedley. Photo By Yanni Dellaportas. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

7.2 Michala Banas as "Phebe" in Season One of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By James Dene. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

7.3 Nadine Garner as "Viola" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

7.4 Christopher Kirby as "Sir Thomas More" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

7.5 Billy Smedley as "Henry V" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

7.6 Speaking Daggers Cast: Jaron Natoli, Christopher Kirby, Nadine Garner, Sally Mclean, Scott Major, Faran Martin, Billy Smedley, and Michala Banas. Photo By Christoph Ziegenhardt. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016

8.1 Suit of Armour at the Battle of Bosworth Re-Enactment, August 2017. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly

8.2 Sara Beer in Richard III Redux, on Location at Cilgerran Castle Near Cardigan (West Wales) for the Atmospheric Video Shoot (With Paul Whittaker, Videographer) that Opens the Performance. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly

8.3 Sara Beer as The 'National Treasure' Researching 'Her' R/Richard as a Six-Foot Four Non-Disabled Rugby Player

8.4 Sara Beer… Unable to 'Disappear' Into a Role

9.1 Mathew Baynton as William Shakespeare in Horrible Histories (Left) and as Bill Shakespeare in Bill. Images Courtesy of the BBC and BBC Films.

9.2 From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare) and Rupert Everett (Marlowe) in Shakespeare in Love

Jim Howick (Marlowe) and Mathew Baynton (Shakespeare) in Bill. Images Courtesy of Miramax and BBC Films

10.1 Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) Tells Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) that Viola has "Been Plucked… and Not By You" in Shakespeare in Love. Image Courtesy of Miramax

10.2 Elizabeth I (Emma Thompson) Thanks Will Shakespeare (David Mitchell) for the Gift of Poetry, Which has Evidently Moved Her. Image from Upstart Crow Courtesy of the BBC

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 "Did Shakespeare Really Write This Racy Stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Section I: Page to Stage/Stage to Page

2 "This Great Stage of Fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear

3 "Covering the Main Points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed

4 "I Wish the Bastards Dead": Adapting Richard III in Children's Literature

5 Playing with Genre and Form: The 'Magic Art' of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare

6 When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett'S Wyrd Sisters

Section II: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen

7 Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic

8 An Irreverent Richard III Redux: [Re]Cripping the Crip

Section III: Adapting the Man

9 Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare 'Origin Story'

10 William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?

Section IV: Adapting the Plays

11 Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism

12 Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare

13 "What'S in a Gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-07312-2

0-429-28880-8

9780429288807

OCLC:

1153354340