Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

著者名：Gerzic, Marina (EDT)/Norrie, Aidan (EDT)

Routledge（2020/04/30発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367256463
• eISBN：9781000073126

Description

Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new ‘Shakespeares’ to emerge, revealing Shakespeare’s ongoing impact in popular culture. Significantly, this collection explores the role of play in the construction of meaning in Shakespearean adaptations—adaptations of both the works of Shakespeare, and of Shakespeare the man—and contributes to the growing scholarly interest in playfulness both past and present. The chapters in Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations engage with the diverse ways that play is used in Shakespearean adaptations on stage, screen, and page, examining how these adaptations draw out existing humour in Shakespeare’s works, the ways that play is used as a pedagogical aid to help explain complex language, themes, and emotions found in Shakespeare’s works, and more generally how play and playfulness can make Shakespeare ‘relatable,’ ‘relevant,’ and entertaining for successive generations of audiences and readers.

Table of Contents

1. "Did Shakespeare really write this racy stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

Section 1: Page to Stage / Stage to Page

Page to Stage / Stage to Page

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

2. "This great stage of fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear

Roberta Grandi

3. "Covering the main points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed

Miranda Fay Thomas

4. "I wish the bastards dead": Adapting Richard III in Children’s Literature

Marina Gerzic

5. Playing with Genre and Form: The "Magic Art" of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare

Chelsea L. Horne

　

6. When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters

Sophie Shorland

Section 2: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen

Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

7. Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic

Sally McLean

8. An Irreverent richard III redux: [Re]cripping the Crip

Kaite O’Reilly and Phillip Zarrilli

　

Section 3: Adapting the Man

Adapting the Man

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

9. Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare ‘Origin Story’

Ronan Hatfull

10. William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?

Aidan Norrie

　

Section 4: Adapting the Plays

Adapting the Plays

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

　

11. Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism

Jennifer Clement

12. Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare

Christian B. Long

13. "What’s in a gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet

Sonja Kleij