Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

by Kidnie; Margaret Jane

• ISBN13: 9780415308687
• ISBN10: 0415308682
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

the problem of adaptation	p. 1
Surviving performance: Shakespeare's contested works	p. 11
Identifying the dramatic work in text and performance	p. 13
Shakespeare performance and/as interpretation	p. 19
Textual production	p. 23
Pragmatic adaptation	p. 27
Defining the work through production, or what adaptation is not	p. 32
Recognizing Hamlet	p. 34
Recognizing the Royal Shakespeare Company	p. 45
Entangled in the present: Shakespeare and the politics of production	p. 65
Writing the present, exorcizing the past: Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet	p. 70
Dancing with art: Robert Lepage's Elsinore	p. 89
Adapting media: ShakespeaRe-Told by the BBC	p. 103
Strategies of appropriation: Shakespeare's 'divorce comedies'	p. 104
Writing Shakespeare's Macbeth for television	p. 112
Mediated proximities, or much ado about 'noting'	p. 119
(Re)Telling Dream, building digital Britain	p. 126
Textual origins	p. 140
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 210
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