1st Edition

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation

262 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so, the contributions to the collection provide tools for thinking about appropriation and cultural... Read more

Contributors Bio

Acknowledgement

Foreword by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes

Introduction: Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation in the Third Millennium

Vanessa I. Corredera, L. Monique Pittman, and Geoffrey Way

Appropriation Conversation #1 with Sujata Iyengar

Chapter 1. Romanian Hamlet: Translated Shakespeare as Soft Power for the Post-Communist Nation

Ingrid Radulescu and L. Monique Pittman

Chapter 2. Taking Centre Stage: Shakespearean Appropriations on Spanish Television in Franco’s Spain

Elena Bandín

Chapter 3. Rescuing Othello: Early Soviet Stage and Cultural Authority

Natalia Khomenko

Appropriation Conversation #2 with Ruben Espinosa

Chapter 4. "Othello Was a Lie": Wrestling with Shakespeare’s Othello

Ambereen Dadabhoy

Chapter 5. Prospero in Prison: Adaptation and Appropriation in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed

Elizabeth Charlebois

Chapter 6. Motherhoods and Motherlands: Gender, Nation, and Adaptation in We That Are Young

Taarini Mookherjee

Appropriation Conversation #3 with Ayanna Thompson

Chapter 7. Hijacking Shakespeare: Archival Absences, Textual Accidents, and Revisionist Repair in Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Imogen Says Nothing

Kathryn Vomero Santos

Chapter 8. "Fortune reigns in gifts of the world": Appropriation and Power in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s International Collections

Helen A. Hopkins

Chapter 9. Remediating White, Patriarchal Violence in Caridad Svich’s Twelve Ophelias

Katherine Gillen

 

Appropriation Conversation #4 with Joyce Green MacDonald

Chapter 10. Remedial Uses of Shakespeare: An Afterword

Alexa Alice Joubin and Elizabeth Rivlin

 

Index

 

Biography

Vanessa I. Corredera is Chair of and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Andrews University, USA.

L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.

Geoffrey Way is the Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, USA.