Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

ISBN-13: 9780367504649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str.

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"From Victorian burlesque to contemporary graphic novels, this collection provides a range of material for the reader interested in Shakespearean adaptation of drama...the range covered in this collection is extensive. Overall, the collection offers thoughtful and wide-ranging new insights into the concepts of play and irreverence in Shakespearean adaptations for readers old and new."

-- Jennifer E. Nicholson, The University of Sydney, Parergon 38.2 (2021)

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations introduces a range of both mediums and methods of adaptation, many of which have received relatively little critical attention... Overall, the book successfully provides a wide-ranging overview of the role of play and playfulness in adaptations of Shakespeare, giving examples that vary in scope, period, and medium.

-- Anna Quercia-Thomas, The University of Western Australia, Limina: a Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies 27.2 (2022)

Spis treści

1. "Did Shakespeare really write this racy stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations  Section 1: Page to Stage / Stage to Page  Page to Stage / Stage to Page  2. "This great stage of fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear  3. "Covering the main points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed  4. "I wish the bastards dead": Adapting Richard III in Children’s Literature  5. Playing with Genre and Form: The "Magic Art" of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare  6. When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters  Section 2: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen  Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen  7. Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic  8. An Irreverent richard III redux: [Re]cripping the Crip  Section 3: Adapting the Man  Adapting the Man  9. Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare ‘Origin Story’  10. William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?  Section 4: Adapting the Plays  Adapting the Plays  11. Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism  12. Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare  13. "What’s in a gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet