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The ethical implications of Shakespeare in performance and appropriation / edited by Louise Geddes, Kathryn Vomero Santos and Geoffrey Way.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.
- Theater--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Performing the Promise of Shakespeare
- 1. '. . . a thing impossible I should love thee': Shakespearean Performance as White Property
- 2. Hamlet as Resisting Subject: Intersecting Artistic Tactics in the Mousetraps of Doran and Godwin
- 3. Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004)
- 4. Rita Dove, Blues Aesthetics and Shakespearean Improvisation
- 5. 'Ich leb', was ihr rappt': Confronting Racism through Consumption in OG Keemo's Otello
- 6. Mythical Geographies: Race, Nationalism and Shakespeare's Pronunciation
- 7. Shakespeare and Gentrification in Regional Theatre
- 8. Page and Stage Appropriations of Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 9. (Un)Veiling Isabella in Measure for Measure
- 10. 'I have perused her well': The Hypersexualisation of Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII and Showtime's The Tudors
- 11. Trammelling up the Consequence: Making Shakespeare Fiction.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-2493-3
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