The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation
Published on 30. April 2024
224 pages
978-1-3995-2493-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 black and white illustrations
File size
15,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-2493-3 (9781399524933)
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Louise Geddes | Kathryn Vomero Santos | Geoffrey Way
The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation
Book
04/2024
Edinburgh University Press
€126.50
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Persons
Editor
Professor of EnglishAdelphi University_x000D_
Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities CollectiveTrinity University in San Antonio, Texas
Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press, where he serves as the Managing Editor for two open access publications, The Sundial and Borrowers and Lenders.Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press
Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor Biographies
- 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
- Index
