Shakespeare Adaptation Modern Drama

Download Shakespeare Adaptation Modern Drama full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Shakespeare Adaptation Modern Drama ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Shakespeare/adaptation/modern Drama

Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442641746
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare/adaptation/modern Drama by : Randall Martin

Download or read book Shakespeare/adaptation/modern Drama written by Randall Martin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between modern drama and Shakespeare remains intense and fruitful, as Shakespearian themes continue to permeate contemporary plays, films, and other art-forms. Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media. Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare and modern drama in the context of current literary theories and historical accounts of adaptive and appropriative practices. Among the diverse and intriguing examples studied are the authorial self-adaptations of Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, and the generic and political appropriations of Shakespeare's texts in television, musical theatre, and memoir. This illuminating and theoretically astute tribute to Renaissance and modern drama scholar Jill Levenson will stimulate further research on the evolving adaptive and intertextual relationships between influential literary works and periods.

Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World

Author : Joyce Green MacDonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030506800
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World by : Joyce Green MacDonald

Download or read book Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World written by Joyce Green MacDonald and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays. Despite this physical absence, however, they still play central symbolic roles in articulating definitions of love, beauty, chastity, femininity, and civic and social standing, invoked as the opposite and foil of women who are “fair”. Beginning from this recognition of black women’s simultaneous physical absence and imaginative presence, this book argues that modern Shakespearean adaptation is a primary means for materializing black women’s often elusive presence in the plays, serving as a vital staging place for historical and political inquiry into racial formation in Shakespeare’s world, and our own. Ranging geographically across North America and the Caribbean, and including film and fiction as well as drama as it discusses remade versions of Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World will attract scholars of early modern race studies, gender and performance, and women in Renaissance drama.

The Invention of Love

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191703
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Invention of Love by : Tom Stoppard

Download or read book The Invention of Love written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415308674
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation by : Margaret Jane Kidnie

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation written by Margaret Jane Kidnie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre

Author : Lisa Starks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430082
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre by : Lisa Starks

Download or read book Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre written by Lisa Starks and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "e;Ovid"e; (as an umbrella term for "e;all things Ovidian"e;) on the early modern English stageIncludes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatistsDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.

Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television

Author : L. Monique Pittman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433106644
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television by : L. Monique Pittman

Download or read book Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television written by L. Monique Pittman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeare's drama by focusing on the ways in which modern directors acknowledge and respond to the perceived authority of Shakespeare as author, text, cultural icon, theatrical tradition, and academic institution. This study explores two central questions. First, what efforts do directors make to justify their adaptations and assert an interpretive authority of their own? Second, how do those self-authorizing gestures impact upon the construction of gender, class, and ethnic identity within the filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's plays? The chosen films and television series considered take a wide range of approaches to the adaptative process - some faithfully preserve the words of Shakespeare; others jettison the Early Modern language in favor of contemporary idiom; some recreate the geographic and historical specificity of the original plays, and others transplant the plot to fresh settings. The wealth of extra-textual material now available with film and television distribution and the numerous website tie-ins and interviews offer the critic a mine of material for accessing the ways in which directors perceive the looming Shakespearean shadow and justify their projects. Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television places these directorial claims alongside the film and television plotting and aesthetic to investigate how such authorizing gestures shape the presentation of gender, class, and ethnicity.

Shakespeare's R & J

Author : Joe Calarco
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822216797
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare's R & J by : Joe Calarco

Download or read book Shakespeare's R & J written by Joe Calarco and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's Rom

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare

Author : Grace McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000416828
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare by : Grace McCarthy

Download or read book Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare written by Grace McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama. The book explores the intersections of adaptation studies, film studies, Shakespeare studies, and disability studies to analyze twentieth and twenty-first century representations of both physical disability and ‘madness’ in global cinematic film, television film, and digital broadcast cinema in Shakespeare’s works. Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare argues that the filmic stare does not differentiate between male and female characters with disabilities, or between powerful and powerless figures in disability representation. This multi-disciplinary volume is ideal for disability studies scholars, Shakespeare scholars, and those interested in adaptations of Shakespeare’s famous works.

Shakespeare in Modern English

Author : Translated by Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178589840X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Modern English by : Translated by Hugh Macdonald

Download or read book Shakespeare in Modern English written by Translated by Hugh Macdonald and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Modern English breaks the taboo about Shakespeare’s texts, which have long been regarded as sacred and untouchable while being widely and freely translated into foreign languages. It is designed to make Shakespeare more easily understood in the theatre without dumbing down or simplifying the content. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘The Tempest’ are presented in Macdonald’s book in modern English. They show that these great plays lose nothing by being acted or read in the language we all use today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic, elaborately rich and memorable, but much of it is very difficult to comprehend in the theatre when we have no notes to explain allusions, obsolete vocabulary and whimsical humour. Foreign translations of Shakespeare are normally into their modern language. So why not ours too? The purpose in rendering Shakespeare into modern English is to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of audiences in the theatre. The translations are not designed for children or dummies, but for those who want to understand Shakespeare better, especially in the theatre. Shakespeare in Modern English will appeal to those who want to understand the rich and poetical language of Shakespeare in a more comprehensible way. It is also a useful tool for older students studying Shakespeare.

Reinventing the Renaissance

Author : S. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137319402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reinventing the Renaissance by : S. Brown

Download or read book Reinventing the Renaissance written by S. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.

Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

Author : Jo Eldridge Carney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000466167
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women Talk Back to Shakespeare by : Jo Eldridge Carney

Download or read book Women Talk Back to Shakespeare written by Jo Eldridge Carney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers—novelists, playwrights, and poets—have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his work. Thus far, feminist scholarship has examined creative responses to Shakespeare by women writers through the late twentieth century. This book brings together the "then" of Shakespeare with the "now" of contemporary literature by examining how many of his plays have cultural currency in the present day. Adoption and surrogate childrearing; gender fluidity; global pandemics; imprisonment and criminal justice; the intersection of misogyny and racism—these are all pressing social and political concerns, but they are also issues that are central to Shakespeare’s plays and the early modern period. By approaching material with a fresh interdisciplinary perspective, Women Talk Back to Shakespeare is an excellent tool for both scholars and students concerned with adaptation, women and gender, and intertextuality of Shakespeare’s plays.

Adaptations of Shakespeare

Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134692021
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Adaptations of Shakespeare by : Daniel Fischlin

Download or read book Adaptations of Shakespeare written by Daniel Fischlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher The History of King Lear Nahum Tate King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy John Keats The Public (El P(blico) Federico Garcia Lorca The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht uMabatha Welcome Msomi Measure for Measure Charles Marowitz Hamletmachine Heiner Müller Lears Daughters The Womens Theatre Group & Elaine Feinstein Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief Paula Vogel This Islands Mine Philip Osment Harlem Duet Djanet Sears Each play is introduced by a concise, informative introduction with suggestions for further reading. The collection is prefaced by a detailed General Introduction, which offers an invaluable examination of issues related to

Shakespeare Remains

Author : Courtney Lehmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727591
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare Remains by : Courtney Lehmann

Download or read book Shakespeare Remains written by Courtney Lehmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the controversies surrounding the Bard's authorship be resolved when his works precede the historical birth of that modern concept? And how is it that Shakespeare remains such a powerful presence today, years after poststructuralists hailed the "death of the author"? In her cogent book, Lehmann reexamines these issues through a new lens: film theory.An alternative to literary models that either minimize or exalt the writer's creative role, film theory, in Lehmann's view, perceives authorship as a site of constitutive conflict, generating in the process the notion of the auteur. From this perspective, she offers close readings of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet, of film adaptations by Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann, and Michael Almereyda, and of John Madden's Shakespeare in Love. In their respective historical contexts, these plays and films emerge as allegories of authorship, exploiting such strategies as appropriation, adaptation, projection, and montage. Lehmann explores the significance of this struggle for agency, both in Shakespeare's time and in the present day, in the cultures of early and late capitalism.By projecting film theory from the postmodern to the early modern and back again, Lehmann demonstrates the ways in which Shakespeare emerges as a special effect—indeed, as an auteur—in two cultures wherein authors fear to tread.

Shakespeare for Young People

Author : Abigail Rokison
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441125566
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare for Young People by : Abigail Rokison

Download or read book Shakespeare for Young People written by Abigail Rokison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive overview of productions, versions and adaptations of Shakespeare for children and young people

Choreographing Shakespeare

Author : Elizabeth Klett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351238663
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Choreographing Shakespeare by : Elizabeth Klett

Download or read book Choreographing Shakespeare written by Elizabeth Klett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare. This book investigates forty dance works in genres such as ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop, produced between 1940 and 2016 by choreographers in Britain, America, and Europe, all of which use Shakespeare’s plays and Sonnets as their source material. By combining scholarly analysis of these productions with practice-based conversations from six contemporary choreographers, Klett offers both breadth of coverage and in-depth analysis of how Shakespeare’s poetic language is translated into the usually wordless medium of dance, and shows exactly how these dance adaptations move beyond the Shakespearean texts to engage with musical and choreographic influences. Ideal for students of Shakespeare and Dance Studies, Choreographing Shakespeare explores how dance adaptations strive to design legible and intelligible stories, while ultimately celebrating the beauty of pure movement.

Screening Early Modern Drama

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724482X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Screening Early Modern Drama by : Pascale Aebischer

Download or read book Screening Early Modern Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident, approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.

The Re-Imagined Text

Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161436
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Re-Imagined Text by : Jean I. Marsden

Download or read book The Re-Imagined Text written by Jean I. Marsden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history -- the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused -- a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.