Hamlet after deconstruction / Aneta Mancewicz.
Mancewicz, Aneta, author.
2022
PR3091
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Title Hamlet after deconstruction / Aneta Mancewicz.
Author Mancewicz, Aneta, author.
ISBN 9783030968069 (electronic bk.)
3030968065 (electronic bk.)
9783030968052
3030968057
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96806-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-96806-9 doi
Call Number PR3091
Dewey Decimal Classification 822/.33
Summary Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derridas deconstruction, this book introduces a new interpretative paradigm. Central to this paradigm is the idea that an act of adaptation consists in foregrounding gaps and incoherencies in the source; it is about questioning rather than clarifying. The book explores this paradigm through seven representative European adaptations of Hamlet produced between the 1960s and the 2010s: dramatic texts, live theatre productions, and a mixed reality performance. They systematically challenge the post-Romantic idea of Hamlet as a tragedy of great passions and heroic deeds. What does this say about Hamlets impact on post-war theatre and culture? The deconstructive analyses offered in this book show how adaptations of Hamlet capture crucial anxieties and concerns of post-war Europe, such as political disillusionment, postmodern scepticism, and feminist resistance, revealing exciting connections between European traditions. Aneta Mancewicz is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on Shakespearean performance, digital technologies, and European theatre. She is the author of Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Biedny Hamlet [Poor Hamlet] (2010). She also co-edited two collections of essays: Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere and Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance, both published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. As an associate dramaturg, she supported mixed reality adaptations of Shakespeare, such as CREWs Hamlet (2017 and 2018) and Nexus Studios The Tempest (2020).
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Supplements of Action
Chapter 2. Supplement
Chapter 3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
Chapter 4. Ophelias Zimmer, Alice Birch and Katie Mitchell
Chapter 5. Fortinbras Gets Drunk, Janusz Gowacki
Part II. Differance: Machines and Mixed Realities
Chapter 6. Differance
Chapter 7. The Hamletmachine, Heiner Muller
Chapter 8. Hamlets Lunacy, CREW
Part III. Traces of Hamlet
Chapter 9. Trace
Chapter 10. Kitsch Hamlet, Saverio La Ruina
Chapter 11. Factory, Igor Bauersima
Chapter 12. Conclusion.

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