UID:
almahu_9949870134502882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789356408951
Content:
〈b〉〈i〉Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies 〈/i〉is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies.〈/b〉 The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading. The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia - Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier's concept of the 'rhizomatic' approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often 'unfaithfully' in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.
Note:
〈b〉Politics and Shakespeare's Plays〈/b〉 Introduction Chapter 1: Something for All the Family: Family Values in 〈i〉Titus Andronicus〈/i〉 - W. P. Williams Chapter 2: Spectacles of Violent Revenge: Gendering of Power and Politics in 〈i〉Titus Andronicus〈/i〉 - Swati Ganguly Chapter 3: Women and Madness: A Comparative Study of the Angel and the Demon in Ophelia and Lady Macbeth - Sraddha Nag Chapter 4: Spectacle and Subversion: Interrogation of Dynasty in 〈i〉Macbeth -〈/i〉Alka Rakesh Chapter 5: Comparing Henry V and Yudhi??hira: Politics of Kingship in 〈i〉King Henry V〈/i〉 and 〈i〉The Mahabharata〈/i〉 - Vinod Singh Chapter 6: Ideologies of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in 〈i〉Cymbeline〈/i〉 - Rita Banerjee〈b〉〈/b〉 〈b〉 Asian〈/b〉〈b〉 Adaptations and Contemporary Politics〈/b〉 Chapter 7: Whose Dream Is Wu Hsing-kuo's 〈i〉A Midsummer Night's Dream〈/i〉? Searching for Multilingual Identity in Contemporary Taiwanese Shakespeare - Yilin Chen Chapter 8: 'Our Perdita is found': The Politics of Trust and Risk in 〈i〉The Winter's Tale〈/i〉 Directed by Satoshi Miyagi - Ted Motohashi Chapter 9: Over a Century of 〈i〉Hamlets〈/i〉 in Bengal - Rita Banerjee Chapter 10: Shakespeare's Spirit, Chinese Characteristics: Transplanting 〈i〉Romeo and Juliet〈/i〉 on the Chinese Stage - Yujing Ma Chapter 11:〈b〉〈/b〉'Josh-e-Jawani' and the Politics of Love in 〈i〉10ml Love〈/i〉 - Saba Bashir
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9789356408951
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9789356408951?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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