World-wide Shakespeares
Subtitle: local appropriations in film and performance
By: edited by Sonia Massai.
Contributors: Massai, Sonia.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- Foreign countries; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Foreign countries
Table of contents: title: Defining local Shakespeares / Sonia Massai; title: A branch of the blue Nile : Derek Walcott and the Tropic of Shakespeare / Tobias Döring; title: Political Pericles / Suzanne Gossett; title: Shylock as crypto-Jew : a new Mexican adaptation of The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Klein and Michael Shapiro; title: Negotiating intercultural spaces : Much ado about nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese stage / Ruru Li; title: 'It is the bloody business which informs thus ... ' local politics and performative praxis : Macbeth in India / Poonam Trivedi; title: Relocating and dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua's Twelfth night and Alexander Morfov's The tempest / Boika Sokolova; title: "I am not bound to please thee with my answers" : The merchant of Venice on the German stage / Sabine Schülting; title: Katherina "humanized" : abusing the shrew on the Prague stage / Marcela Kostihová; title: Shooting the hero : the cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser / Ton Hoensellars; title: Lamentable tragedy or black comedy : Friedrich Dürrenmatt's adaptation of Titus Andronicus / Lukas Erne; title: Subjection and redemption in Pasolini's Othello / Sonia Massai; title: "Meaning by Shakespeare" south of the border / Alfredo Modenessi; title: Dreams of England / Robert Shaughnessy; title: The cultural logic of "correcting" The merchant of venice / Maria Jones; title: Dancing with art : Robert Lepage's Hamlet / Margaret Jane Kidnie; title: Hekepia? : the mana of the Maori merchant / Mark Houlahan; title: The haiku Macbeth : Shakespearean antithetical minimalism in Kurosawa's Kumonosu-jo / Saviour Catania; title: Adaptation/appropriation / Barbara Hodgdon.