Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation [electronic resource] /
Huang, Alexa.author.
Rivlin, Elizabeth.author.
Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation; CHAPTER 1 Shakespearean Rhizomatics: Adaptation, Ethics, Value; CHAPTER 2 Recognizing Shakespeare, Rethinking Fidelity: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Appropriation; CHAPTER 3 Ethics and the Undead: Reading Shakespearean (Mis)appropriation in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula; CHAPTER 4 Adaptation Revoked: Knowledge, Ethics, and Trauma in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres; CHAPTER 5 Double Jeopardy: Shakespeare and Prison Theater
CHAPTER 6 Theater Director as Unelected Representative: Sulayman Al-Bassam's Arab Shakespeare TrilogyCHAPTER 7 A "Whirl of Aesthetic Terminology": Swinburne, Shakespeare, and Ethical Criticism; CHAPTER 8 "Raw-Savage" Othello: The First- Staged Japanese Adaptation of Othello (1903) and Japanese Colonialism; CHAPTER 9 The Bard in Bollywood: The Fraternal Nation and Shakespearean Adaptation in Hindi Cinema; CHAPTER 10 Multilingual Ethics in Henry V and Henry VIII; CHAPTER 11 In Other Words: Global Shakespearean Transformations; AFTERWORD "State of Exception": Forgetting Hamlet
Appendix For the Record: Conversation with Sulayman Al-BassamBibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
Literature—History and criticism.
Ethics.
Poetry.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.