Full Description
Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him.
Contents
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsContributor Biographies
Introduction: Performing the Promise of Shakespeare - Louise Geddes, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Geoffrey Way
1. '...a thing impossible I should love thee': Shakespearean Performance as White Property - Vanessa I. Corredera
2. Hamlet as Resisting Subject: Intersecting Artistic Tactics in the Mousetraps of Doran and Godwin - Kristin N. Denslow and L. Monique Pittman
3. Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) - Kendra Preston Leonard
4. Rita Dove, Blues Aesthetics and Shakespearean Improvisation - John Garrison and Saiham Sharif
5. 'Ich leb', was ihr rappt': Confronting Racism through Consumption in OG Keemo's Otello - Kirsten Mendoza and Oliver Knabe
6. Mythical Geographies: Race, Nationalism and Shakespeare's Pronunciation - Chris Klippenstein
7. Shakespeare and Gentrification in Regional Theatre - Niamh O'Leary
8. Page and Stage Appropriations of Two Gentlemen of Verona - Matt Kozusko
9. (Un)Veiling Isabella in Measure for Measure - Nora J. Williams
10. 'I have perused her well': The Appropriation and Hypersexualisation of Anne Boleyn in Popular Representations - Yasmine Hachimi
11. Trammeling up the Consequence: Making Shakespeare Fiction - Andrew James Hartley
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