Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (Reproducing Shakespeare)

Alexa Alice Joubin, Aneta Mancewicz, Bettina Boecker, Marcela Kostihova, and Kevin A. Quarmby. It also includes Dan Venning, Benedict Schofield, Anna Stegh Camati, Emily Oliver, and Saffron Vickers Walkling. The remaining contributors are Alexandra Portmann, Aleksandra Sakowska, Kinga Földváry, Frank Widar Brevik, Ryuta Minami, and Michael Dobson.

ISBN 10: 3319898507 / ISBN 13: 9783319898506

Published by Palgrave, 2018

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2018 Palgrave hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition.

Contents:

Chapter 1 is 'Introduction' by Alexa Alice Joubin and Aneta Mancewicz.
Chapter 2 is 'Europe Speaks Shakespeare: Karin Beier?s 1996 A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Multilingual Performance and the Myth of Shakespeare?s Linguistic Transcendence' by Bettina Boecker.
Chapter 3 is 'The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare' by Marcela Kostihova.
Chapter 4 is 'Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea?s Colonization of Hamlet' by Kevin A. Quarmby.
Chapter 5 is 'Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a 'German Shakespeare'' by Dan Venning.
Chapter 6 is 'Shakespeare Beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective' by Benedict Schofield.
Chapter 7 is 'Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question: Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare?s Hamlet' by Anna Stegh Camati.
Chapter 8 is 'Hamlet and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance' by Emily Oliver.
Chapter 9 is 'Denmark?s a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet After 1989 in Lin Zhaohua?s Hamulaite and Jan Klata?s H.' by Saffron Vickers Walkling.
Chapter 10 is 'Hamlet in Times of War: Two Appropriations of Shakespeare?s Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s' by Alexandra Portmann.
Chapter 11 is 'Come, Let?s Away to Prison: Local and Global Myths, and 'Political Shakespeare' in Twenty-First-Century Russia' by Aleksandra Sakowska.
Chapter 12 is 'Localizing a Global Myth: Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear' by Kinga Foldvary.
Chapter 13 is 'Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations' by Frank Widar Brevik. Chapter 14 is 'The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today?s Japanese Stage' by Ryuta Minami.
Chapter 15 is 'Afterword: Shakespeare and Myth' by Michael Dobson.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (Reproducing Shakespeare)
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319898507
• ISBN 13: 9783319898506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines historical, political, and cultural conditions of Shakespearean performances in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. The first part of this volume offers a theoretical introduction to Shakespeare as myth from a twenty-first century perspective. The second part critically evaluates myths of linguistic transcendence, authenticity, and universality within broader European, neo-liberal, and post-colonial contexts. The study of local identities and global icons in the third part uncovers dynamic relationships between regional, national, and transnational myths of Shakespeare. The fourth part revises persistent narratives concerning a political potential of Shakespeare’s plays in communist and post-communist countries. Finally, part five explores the influence of commercial and popular culture on Shakespeare myths. Michael Dobson’s Afterword concludes the volume by locating Shakespeare within classical mythology and contemporary concerns. 

About the Author

Aneta Mancewicz is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. She works on Shakespearean performance, intermediality, and European theatre. Her book publications include Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Biedny Hamlet [Poor Hamlet] (2010).

 

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute. She held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick, UK. At Middlebury College, she holds the John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.