Format:
1 online resource (xv, 245 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781107775466
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9781107416628
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9781107071292
Content:
In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text and contemporary concerns. Using an analogy from particle physics, Holderness tests his methodology through specific examples, structured in four parts: a recreation of performances of Hamlet and Richard II aboard the East India Company ship the Red Dragon in 1607; an imagined encounter between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson writing the King James Bible; the creation of a contemporary folk hero based on Coriolanus and drawing on films such as Skyfall and The Hurt Locker; and an account of the terrorist bombing at a performance of Twelfth Night in Qatar in 2005. These pieces of narrative and drama are interspersed with literary criticism, each using a feature of the original Shakespeare play or its performance to illuminate the extraordinary elasticity of Shakespeare. The 'tales' provoke questions about what we understand to be Shakespeare and not-Shakespeare, making the book of vital interest to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, literary criticism and creative writing.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; I Creative collisions; II Tales from Shakespeare; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from appropriation to collision; Part I; Chapter 1 The voyage of the Red Dragon; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Chapter 2 'Shooting an elephant'; march the 4th, 1607; March the 21st, 1607; May the 7th, 1607; June the 15th, 1607; July the 30th, 1607; August the 6th, 1607; August the 16th, 1607; August the 30th, 1607; August the 31st, 1607; September the 26th, 1607; September the 29th, 1607; September the 30th, 1607
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October the 15th, 1607Part II; Chapter 3 Shakespeare and the King James Bible; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Chapter 4 'Wholly Writ'; A Play in Two Acts; Act 1; Act 2; Part III; Chapter 5 The Coriolanus myth; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Chapter 6 'The Lonely Dragon'; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXII; XXIII; XXIV; XXV; XXVI; XXVII; Part IV; Chapter 7 Shakespeare and 9/11; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Chapter 8 'Rudely interrupted'; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; Afterword: 'Tales from Shakespeare'; Notes; Preface
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Introduction: from appropriation to collision1 The voyage of the Red Dragon; 3 Shakespeare and the King James Bible; 5 The Coriolanus myth; 7 Shakespeare and 9/11; 8 `Rudely Interrupted´; Afterword; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107071292
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107071292
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Holderness, Graham, 1947 - Tales from Shakespeare Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 1107071291
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107071292
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Drama
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Rezeption
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Literatur
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Film
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Geschichte
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Coriolanus
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Rezeption
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Elfter September
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Bibel
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107775466
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