Performing Shakespearean Appropriations: Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet

Matthew Kozusko; Robert Sawyer; Darlena Ciraulo

doi:10.5771/9781683933618

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-68393-360-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-68393-361-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword: “Appropriation and Collaboration” No access
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Child’s Play No access
  2. A Show of Hands No access
  3. A Play That Stops at Nothing No access
  4. The Handy-Dandy of Britain’s Foreign Affairs No access
  5. Gaming the Audience No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Shakespeare’s Protégé: A Head Filled with Gothic Story No access
  2. Horace Reads Hamlet No access
  3. Another Gertrude: Horace Walpole’s Family Romance No access
  4. Finding Shelter in Shakespeare: The Keys to the Beauclerc Closet No access
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1. 1. Shakespeare and Golden Age Batman No access
  2. 1. Shakespeare’s Bust as Commodity No access
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3. 1. Jules and Monty No access
  2. Nothing Much to Do No access
  3. KATE MINOLA No access
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4. 1. On Shakespeare, Character, and Shakespeare’s Characters No access
  2. How Do Actual People Actually Read Shakespeare’s Characters? No access
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1. 1. Levinas, Memory, and Productions of Merchant No access
  2. Jessica’s Prayers No access
  3. Jonathan Miller, 1970–1971 No access
  4. Trevor Nunn, 1999–2000 No access
  5. Jonathan Munby, 2015 No access
  6. Jessica’s Ring: Radford (2004) No access
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2. 1. Gendered Pronouns in Translation: Twelfth Night and Throne of Blood No access
  2. A Transgender Ophelia No access
  3. A Genealogy of Transgender Theory No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Notes No access
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Index No access Pages 231 - 236
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 237 - 240