UID:
edocfu_9959243473102883
Format:
1 online resource (344 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-8991-9
Content:
Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare and modern drama in the context of current literary theories and historical accounts of adaptive and appropriative practices. Among the diverse and intriguing examples studied are the authorial self-adaptations of Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, and the generic and political appropriations of Shakespeare's texts in television, musical theatre, and memoir. This illuminating and theoretically astute tribute to Renaissance and modern drama scholar Jill Levenson will stimulate further research on the evolving adaptive and intertextual relationships between influential literary works and periods."--Pub. desc.
Content:
"The relationship between modern drama and Shakespeare remains intense and fruitful, as Shakespearian themes continue to permeate contemporary plays, films, and other art-forms. Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media.
Note:
Chapter 1: Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass and Brecht / Peter Holland -- Chapter 2: Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx / Hersh Zeifman -- Chapter 3: West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism / Andrea Most -- Chapter 4: Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair and Stage Beauty / Margaret Jane Kidnie -- Chapter 5: Macbeth and Modern Politics / John H. Astington -- Chapter 6: Shakespeare as Memoir / Katherine Scheil -- Chapter 7: 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario Merchant / Robert Ormsby -- Chapter 8: 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word be looked upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two / James C. Bulman -- Chapter 9: Extremes of Passion / Stanley Wells -- Chapter 10: Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature / Alexander Leggatt -- Chapter 11: Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest / Randall Martin -- Chapter 12: Lear's conversation with the philosopher / Hanna Scolnicov -- Chapter 13: An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady and the Pursuit of Happiness / Alan Ackerman -- Chapter 14: 'The Going To Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes On Tennessee Williams' Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961) / Brian Parker -- Chapter 15: 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in Shaw, Coward, and Pinter / Rebecca S. Cameron.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4174-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442689916
