Shakespeare and the Political
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Shakespeare and the Political

Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Shakespeare and the Political

Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies

About this book

Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies. The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading.
The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia – Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier's concept of the 'rhizomatic' approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often 'unfaithfully' in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.

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Yes, you can access Shakespeare and the Political by Rita Banerjee, Yilin Chen, Rita Banerjee,Yilin Chen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Asian Literary Collections. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury India
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9789356404335
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction: Rita Banerjee
  4. Politics and Shakespeare’s Plays
  5. 1. Something for All the Family: Family Values in Titus Andronicus: W.P. Williams
  6. 2. Spectacles of Violent Revenge: Gendering of Power and Politics in Titus Andronicus: Swati Ganguly
  7. 3. Women and Madness in Shakespeare: A Comparative Study of the Angel and the Demon in Ophelia and Lady Macbeth: Sraddha Nag
  8. 4. Spectacle and Subversion: Interrogation of Dynasty: in Macbeth: Alka Rakesh
  9. 5. Comparing Henry V and Yudhiṣṭhira: Politics of: Kingship in King Henry V and the Mahabharata: Vinod Kumar Singh
  10. 6. Ideologies of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: in Cymbeline : Rita Banerjee
  11. Asian Shakespeare and Contemporary Politics
  12. 7. Whose Dream Is Wu Hsing-kuo’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Searching for Multilingual Identity in Contemporary Taiwanese Shakespeare: Yilin Chen
  13. 8. ‘Our Perdita Is Found’: The Politics of Trust and Risk in: The Winter’s Tale, Directed by Satoshi Miyagi : Ted Motohashi
  14. 9. Over a Century of Hamlets in Bengal : Rita Banerjee
  15. 10. Shakespeare’s Spirit, Chinese Characteristics: Transplanting Romeo and Juliet to the Chinese Stage:
  16. 11. Josh-e-Jawani and the Politics of Love: Saba Mahmood Bashir
  17. Index
  18. About the Editors and Contributors