1st Edition
World-Wide Shakespeares Local Appropriations in Film and Performance
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Defining Local Shakespeares Sonia Massai Part 1: Local Shakespeares for Local Audiences 2. A Branch of the Blue Nile: Derek Walcott and the Tropic of Shakespeare Tobias Döring 3. Political Pericles Suzanne Gossett 4. ‘Shylock as Crypto-Jew: A New Mexican Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice’ Elizabeth Klein and Michael Shapiro 5. Negotiating Intercultural Spaces: Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese Stage Ruru Li 6. ‘It is the bloody business which informs thus … ’ Local Politics and Performative Praxis: Macbeth in India Poonam Trivedi Part 2: Local Shakespeares for National Audiences 7. Relocating and Dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua’s Twelfth Night and Alexander Morfov’s The Tempest Boika Sokolova 8. "I am not bound to please thee with my answers": The Merchant of Venice on the German Stage Sabine Schülting 9. Abusing the Shrew on the Prague stage Marcela Kostihová 10. ‘Shooting the Hero: The Cinematic Career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser’ Ton Hoensellars 11. Lamentable Tragedy or Black Comedy: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Adaptation of Titus Andronicus Lukas Erne 12. Subjection and Redemption in Pasolini’s Othello Sonia Massai 13. "Meaning by Shakespeare" South of the Border Alfredo Modenessi 14. Dreams of England Robert Shaughnessy 15. The Cultural Logic of "Correcting" The Merchant of Venice Maria Jones Part 3: Local Shakespeare for International Audiences 16. Dancing with Art: Robert Lepage’s Hamlet Margaret Jane Kidnie 17. Hekepia? The Mana of the Maori Merchant Mark Houlahan 18. The Haiku Macbeth: Shakespearean Antithetical Minimalism in Kurosawa’s Kumonosu-jo Saviour Catania Afterword Adaptation/Appropriation Barbara Hodgdon
Biography
Sonia Massai is a Lecturer at King’s College London. She has published articles on Shakespearean appropriations and edited Titus Andronicus (New Penguin) and The Wise Woman of Hoxton (Globe Quartos). Her current projects include a book on Shakespeare and the Rise of English Drama in Print.
'A very significant contribution to the growing body of critical literature on Shakespeare appropriations within specific theatrical and critical traditions around the globe.' - Jill Levenson, University of Toronto, Canada
'Massai's definition and focus on the importance of "locality" in worldwide Shakespeare appropriations challenges, even as it extends, other recent scholarship tracing Shakespeare's "afterlife".' - Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University, USA
'World-Wide Shakespeares is undoubtedly a valuable and timely addition to our understanding of what artists are doing to and with Shakespeare across the globe and how their work signifies both locally and internationally.' - Robert Ormsby, Review of Literature
