基本説明
Considers the value and use of Shakespeare both inside and outside the classroom.
Full Description
This study simultaneously supports and challenges Shakespeare's "universality". It does this by showing that Shakespeare is not universal insofar as his poetry speaks to all people of all classes, beyond class distinctions, but by demonstrating just how deeply entrenched Shakespeare is across a spectrum of socioeconomic structures and class, gender and ethnic struggles. The subjects of these essays range from Shakespeare's own appropriation of the sonnet form from Elizabethan couriers to reinterpretations of Shakespeare's plays in 19th-century African theatre to Brecht's political reworkings of Shakespeare's plays to pedagogical uses of Shakespeare in cultural studies courses to adaptations of Shakespeare in gay porn films. This collection of contributions considers the value and use of Shakespeare both inside and outside the classroom. It considers the extent to which Shakespeare is a social, cultural and political battleground. From festivals to adaptations, the current explosion of the use of Shakespeare often consolidates elite and dominant culture.This text suggests that, if we give more sustained attention to the uses of clash with Shakespeare's status as high cultural capital, we might help to identify, understand, and even co produce both Shakespearean dissonance as well as a vital, collective countertradition.
Contents
'What is the City but the People?'Politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Brecht's Coriolan; B.Reynolds Rehearsing the Weird Sisters; L.Katz 'Where's the Master': The Technologies of the Stage, Page, and Screen in The Tempest and Prospero's Books; J.R Andreas Masked Balls: Homonormativity, Romance, and Gay (Fe)Male Romeo and Juliet Porn; R.Burt Privilege and the Sonnets; D.C.Callaghan Bards of the Borders: Scott's Kenilworth and the Nineteenth Century's Othello; D.E.Henderson Vaulting Ambitions and Killing Machines: Shakespeare, Jarry, Ionesco, and the Senecan Absurd; C.Perry New York's African Theatre: Shakespeare Reinterpreted; W.Over Romancing the Bard; L.Osborne
