UID:
almafu_9961264439602883
Format:
1 online resource (221 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
83-233-7235-7
Content:
〈i〉Reading the Past, Understanding the Present〈/i〉 is a collection of essays written by students from nine European universities, who took part in the Strategic Partnership, 'Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare's World and Present Challenges', aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing the contemporary Europe and the world. In each chapter, the authors examine early modern theatre, the works by William Shakespeare in particular, and how it interacts with various local and global issues, reflecting on their cultural and socio-political origins and consequences. This book offers an innovative insight into the relationship between the past represented in such plays as 'The Merchant of Venice', 'King Lear', 'The Tempest', or the history plays and the complex contemporary European context - migrant crisis, racial diversity, democracy, or the Covid-19 pandemic.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023).
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Intro -- Preface -- Approaching the Other in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -- Shylock, the Undoubtable Other -- Shakespeare's Art as a Vehicle for Mediationon the Global Refugee Crisis -- Shakespeare, Censorship and South Africa -- "He but usurped his life": The Shameful Death in BBC Two's King Lear -- "O R, R! Wherefore art thou Zombie? "Death, Posthumanism and the Self in Warm Bodies (2013) -- Different Types of Authority in William Shakespeare's History Plays -- Jacek Woszczerowicz's Appropriation of Shakespeare's Richard III in Communist Poland -- Strategic Partnership Project as Academic Training Ground -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Orszulak, Agnieszka Reading the Past, Understanding the Present La Vergne : Jagiellonian University Press,c2022
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9788323372356/type/BOOK
