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The Fiendlike Queen: Recuperating Lady Macbeth in Contemporary Adaptations of Macbeth
Many adaptations and appropriations in recent decades have attempted to recast the \"fiend-like queen\" Lady Macbeth in a more positive light — a difficult task, given her actions in Shakespeare's play. These representations move far away from earlier texts in which \"Lady Macbeth\" is little more than a synonym for a murderous woman. Several recent works of popular culture seek, instead, an explanation or rationale for her participation in Duncan's murder through reference to her earlier marriage and son by that marriage (both suppressed in Shakespeare's play), to her situation as a woman in a culture of Celtic masculinity, and even to a supposed daughter, with whom she is ultimately reunited. The result is a repentant, heroic, even justified Lady Macbeth. Among the works discussed are Gordon Bottomley, Gruach(1919), Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth: A Novel (2008), Lisa M. Klein, Lady Macbeth's Daughter (2009), and A. J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth: A Novel (2012).
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Applications of hypergroups and related measure algebras : a Joint Summer Research Conference on Applications of Hypergroups and Related Measure Algebras, July 31-August 6, 1993, Seattle, Washington
'The most important single thing about this conference was that it brought together for the first time representatives of all major groups of users of hypergroups. [They] talked to each other about how they were using hypergroups in fields as diverse as special functions, probability theory, representation theory, measure algebras, Hopf algebras, and Hecke algebras. This led to fireworks' - From the Introduction.Hypergroups occur in a wide variety of contexts, and mathematicians the world over have been discovering this same mathematical structure hidden in very different applications. The diverse viewpoints on the subject have led to the need for a common perspective, if not a common theory. Presenting the proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference held in Seattle in the summer of 1993, this book will serve as a valuable starting point and reference tool for the wide range of users of hypergroups and make it easier for an even larger audience to use these structures in their work.
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I knew him in Padua’: London theatre and early modern constructions of erudition
This paper examines one aspect of the two-way cultural traffic between London and Padua: how the city of Padua figured in debates about the nature of masculinity in early modern London, especially its theatres. Invariably known primarily for its university—noted by Coryat and Moryson, a tourist attraction for Chaucer, Sidney, and Milton—the name “Padua” became synonymous with “erudition.” While learnedness was in theory a positive quality, the place of learnedness in a declining honor culture and its complex role in constituting masculinity remained a contentious subject. English writers by turns envied or scorned the learning acquired in Italy, and invocations of Padua and its link to rapier fencing resulted in a series of contradictory figures in the drama of Shakespeare and Webster: doctors, pedants, enlightened philosophers, lovers, murderers for hire.
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\Love's Labour's Lost\ in Afghanistan
The author discusses a production of William Shakespeare's \"Love's Labour's Lost,\" directed by Corinne Jaber, presented in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, and revived in 2006 in Kabul and two other cities. Carroll offers comments from Jaber and examines the adaptation of the play in the language of Dari, cultural influences in revisions, the influence of the Taliban, the historical settings of the performances, and audiences, among other topics.
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(Re-)Staging Love's Labour's Lost
Michael Kahn, director of the Love's Labour's Lost for the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) in 2006, was invited by the Royal Shakespeare Company to bring his production to Stratford-upon-Avon as part of its program staging all of Shakespeare's plays. Kahn set the play in India in the 1960s, alluding to the Beatles' visit to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and invoked several other markers of that time period. The production was a considerable commercial success, both in England and the U.S., and was generally praised for its originality and energy. What no reviewer noticed, however, was that Kahn had offered exactly the same production in 1968 at the American Shakespeare Theatre in 1968. All the publicity for the 2006 production, as well as Kahn's own comments on the company's website, implied or stated that this was a new production. This essay reviews the details of Kahn's production and attendant publicity and the theoretical issues raised by its concealed repetition, and then considers other productions of the play in the 1960-80 period, from China to Bulgaria, that depict the play in more political terms.
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The Fiendlike Queen: Recuperating Lady Macbeth in Contemporary Adaptations of Macbeth
Many adaptations and appropriations in recent decades have attempted to recast the \"fiend-like queen\" Lady Macbeth in a more positive light -- a difficult task, given her actions in Shakespeare's play. These representations move far away from earlier texts in which \"Lady Macbeth\" is little more than a synonym for a murderous woman. Several recent works of popular culture seek, instead, an explanation or rationale for her participation in Duncan's murder through reference to her earlier marriage and son by that marriage (both suppressed in Shakespeare's play), to her situation as a woman in a culture of Celtic masculinity, and even to a supposed daughter, with whom she is ultimately reunited. The result is a repentant, heroic, even justified Lady Macbeth. Among the works discussed are Gordon Bottomley, Gruach (1919), Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth: A Novel (2008), Lisa M. Klein, Lady Macbeth's Daughter (2009), and A. J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth: A Novel (2012).
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