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Shakespeare's cinema of love
This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays
significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century,
particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood
period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional
equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as
in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and
Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy
on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained
recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise.
The book traces generic links between Shakespeare's comedies of
love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, 'screwball' comedy
and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions
defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, 'errors', disguise
and 'shrew-taming'. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the
book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the
representation of love in narratives.
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Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance
Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: what is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? Developing the notion of 'performativity' explored by J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and others, Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its performance. Instead the text becomes significant only as embodied in the changing conventions of its performance. Worthen explores this understanding of dramatic performativity by interrogating several contemporary sites of Shakespeare production. He analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance, exemplified by the Globe Theatre on Bankside; by international and intercultural performance; by film; and by the appearance of Shakespeare on the Internet. The book includes detailed discussions of recent film and stage productions, and sets Shakespeare performance alongside other works of contemporary drama and theatre.
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The Shakespeare timeline wallbook : the wonderful plays of William Shakespeare, at the Original Globe Theatre
Unfold the complete plays of Shakespeare--one theater, thirty-eight dramas! Developed in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Speaking of the Moor
Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title \"Speak of me as I am,\" Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. InThe Battle of Alcazar,Titus Andronicus,Lust's Dominion, andOthello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors. Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our-and England's-understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. InSpeaking of the Moor, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record-Richard Hakluyt'sPrincipal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's \"blackamoors,\" and John Pory's translation ofThe History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era.
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King Lear
\"An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading\"--Provided by publisher.
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Othello in European culture
This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as well as differing perspectives on questions of gender and race.
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Macbeth : language and writing
Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's complex dramatic language, and expanding your own critical vocabulary, as you respond to his plays. Key features include: an introduction considering when and how the play was written, addressing the language with which Shakespeare created his work, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal; detailed examination and analysis of the individual text focusing in it literary, technical, and historical intricacies; discussion of performance history and the critical reception of the work. At a climactic point in the play, Macbeth realises that the witches have deceived him through their ambiguous language: 'they palter with us in a double sense'. This book explores Shakespeare's own paltering in the play - the densely rich language of ambition, of blood, and of guilt that structures Macbeth. -- Provided by publisher.
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Shakespeare in Succession
It may certainly be said that nothing can be assumed about
Shakespeare: on the one hand, the Elizabethan poet seems to be
thriving, with more editions, productions, studies, and
translations appearing every year; on the other hand, in a time of
global crisis and decolonization, the question of why Shakespeare
is relevant at all is now more pertinent than ever. Shakespeare
in Succession approaches the question of relevance by
positioning Shakespeare as a participant as well as an object of
adaptive translation, a labour that has always mediated between the
foreign and the domestic, between the past and the present, between
the arcane and the urgent. The volume situates Shakespeare on a
continuum of transfers that can be understood from cultural,
spatial, temporal, or linguistic points of view by studying how the
text of Shakespeare is transformed into other languages and
examining Shakespeare himself as a kind of translator of previous
times, older stories, and prior theatrical and linguistic systems.
Contending with the poet's contemporary fate, Shakespeare in
Succession asks how Shakespeare's work can be offered to the
multicultural present in which we live, and how we might relate our
position to that of the iconic writer.
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