By Sonia Massai
ISBN-10: 0415324556
ISBN-13: 9780415324557
Drawing on debates round the global/local dimensions of cultural construction, a global crew of members discover the appropriation of Shakespeare’s performs in movie and function round the world.
In specific, the booklet examines the ways that adapters and administrators have positioned Shakespeare into discussion with neighborhood traditions and contexts. The participants glance in flip at ‘local’ Shakespeares for neighborhood, nationwide and foreign audiences, overlaying a number English and overseas appropriations that problem geographical and cultural oppositions among ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares.
Responding to a surge of serious curiosity within the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a helpful source for these drawn to the afterlife of Shakespeare in movie and function globally.
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