Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations

ISBN-13: 9780367763510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 190 str.

Jo Eldridge Carney

Opis

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways.

Recenzje

"This book provides a model for how analyze and situate the work of women writers in connection with Shakespeare."  

Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

Spis treści

0. Introduction  1 Toni Morrison and Rokia Traoré’s Desdemona and William Shakespeare’s Othello  2. Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest  3. Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest  4. Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time and William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale  5. Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise and William Shakespeare’s Pericles  6. Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and William Shakespeare’s King Lear  7. Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Shakespeare’s Family in Fact and Fiction

O autorze

Jo Eldridge Carney is a Professor of English at The College of New Jersey where she teaches courses in early modern studies, folk and fairy tales, and contemporary literature.