Performing Shakespearean Appropriations
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Performing Shakespearean Appropriations

Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet

  1. 253 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performing Shakespearean Appropriations

Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet

About this book

Performing Shakespearean Appropriations explores the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across time periods and through a range of performance topics. The ten essays, moving from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, address uses of Shakespeare in the novel, television, cinema, and digital media. Drawing on Christy Desmet's work, several contributors figure appropriation as a posthumanist enterprise that engages with electronic Shakespeare by dismantling, reassembling, and recreating Shakespearean texts in and for digital platforms. The collection thus looks at media and performance technologies diachronically in its focus on Shakespeare's afterlives. Contributors also construe the notion of "performance" broadly to include performances of selves, of communities, of agencies, and of authenticity—either Shakespeare's, or the user's, or both. The essays examine both specific performances and larger trends across media, and they consider a full range of modes: from formal and professional to casual and amateur; from the fixed and traditional to the ephemeral, the itinerant, and the irreverent.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword: “Appropriation and Collaboration”
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Past
  10. Chapter 1: What’s in a Game?: Handy-Dandy, War, and Foreign Relations in King Lear
  11. Chapter 2: Strawberry Hill: The House that Hamlet Built
  12. Chapter 3: What’s Past Is Prologue: Shakespeare the Romantic
  13. Part II: Present
  14. Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s Bust and the 1960s Batman TV Show
  15. Chapter 5: On the Shakespeare Trail
  16. Chapter 6: Shakespeare in the Dorm: The Rhetoric of Character in YouTube Shakespeare
  17. Chapter 7: Why Are Shakespeare’s Characters So “Relatable”?
  18. Part III: Future
  19. Chapter 8: Levinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The Merchant of Venice
  20. Chapter 9: Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare
  21. Chapter 10: Quoting Machines: Shakespearean Things in and Beyond HBO’s Westworld
  22. Chapter 11: On Character, Character Criticism, and The King is Alive: For Christy Desmet
  23. Afterword
  24. Index
  25. About the Editor and Contributors