Shakespeare's legacy
Subtitle: the appropriation of the plays in post-colonial drama
By: Norbert Schaffeld (ed.).
Contributors: Schaffeld, Norbert, 1955- ed.
Series: Reflections : literatures in English outside Britain and the USA -- Bd. 14; Reflections -- Bd. 14.
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9783884767665
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Influence.; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Commonwealth drama (English) -- History and criticism.; Developing countries -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: "I need some answers William": Shakespeare and post-colonial drama / Norbert Schaffeld (Bremen); value: "...accents yet unknown": examples of Shakespeare from Ghana, Malawi and Eritrea / James Gibbs (Bristol) and Christine Matzke (Berlin); value: "Uneasy lies the head...": South African encounters with the bard / Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (Saarbruken); value: "Speakest thou English?": Shakespeare and contemporary Australian theatre / Norbert Schaffeld (Bremen); value: Lear, Hamlet and Othello: Canadianized / Albert-Reiner Glaap (Dusseldorf); value: "Classical and Creole": Shakespeare's legacy in the Caribbean theatre / Helge Nowak (Regensburg); value: The empire of Shakespeare in India: deglamourised, transformed, greatly shrunk / Cecile Sandten (Bremen); value: Comedy and irreverence: rewriting Shakespeare in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Lisa Warrington (Dunedin); value: Shakespeare in Southeast Asia / Rudiger Ahrens (Wurzburg).