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