Shakespeare/adaptation/modern drama [electronic resource] : essays in honour of Jill L. Levenson / edited by Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil.
Martin, Randall, 1958-; Scheil, Katherine West, 1966-
2011
PR2880.A1 S53 2011eb
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Title Shakespeare/adaptation/modern drama [electronic resource] : essays in honour of Jill L. Levenson / edited by Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil.
ISBN 9781442689916 (electronic bk.)
9781442641747
Imprint Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 329 p.) : ill., port.
Call Number PR2880.A1 S53 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
Summary "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."--pub. desc.
Note Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Martin, Randall, 1958-
Scheil, Katherine West, 1966-
Series Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
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Chapter 1: Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass and Brecht / Peter Holland
Chapter 2: Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx / Hersh Zeifman
Chapter 3: West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism / Andrea Most
Chapter 4: Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair and Stage Beauty / Margaret Jane Kidnie
Chapter 5: Macbeth and Modern Politics / John H. Astington
Chapter 6: Shakespeare as Memoir / Katherine Scheil
Chapter 7: 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario Merchant / Robert Ormsby
Chapter 8: 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word be looked upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two / James C. Bulman
Chapter 9: Extremes of Passion / Stanley Wells
Chapter 10: Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature / Alexander Leggatt
Chapter 11: Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest / Randall Martin
Chapter 12: Lear's conversation with the philosopher / Hanna Scolnicov
Chapter 13: An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady and the Pursuit of Happiness / Alan Ackerman
Chapter 14: 'The Going To Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes On Tennessee Williams' Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961) / Brian Parker
Chapter 15: 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in Shaw, Coward, and Pinter / Rebecca S. Cameron.

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