Shakespeare in Africa (& other venues)
Subtitle: import & the appropriation of culture
By: Lemuel A. Johnson.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Africa.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Geography.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; English drama -- Foreign influences.; Culture conflict in literature.; Exoticism in literature.; Culture in literature.; Caribbean Area -- In literature.; Africa -- In literature.
Other titles: Shakespeare in Africa (and other venues)
Description: This complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay, and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's reception in Africa as compared with that in Europe and the Americas."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-458) and index.