World-Wide Shakespeares

World-Wide Shakespeares
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781134345830
ISBN-13 : 1134345836
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Book Synopsis World-Wide Shakespeares by : Sonia Massai

Download or read book World-Wide Shakespeares written by Sonia Massai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at ‘local’ Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares. Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.


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