Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century

by Bate, Jonathan; Levenson, Jill L.; Mehl, Dieter; International Shakespeare Association. World Congress

• ISBN13: 9780874136524
• ISBN10: 0874136520
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Summary

This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(4)
STANLEY WELLS
Acknowledgments	17	(6)
Part One: Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century	23	(192)
South Africa in Othello	23	(18)
JANET SUZMAN
Shakespeare in Iceland	41	(19)
JANE SMILEY
Performing Inferiority: Shakespeare's Lesser Plays in the Twentieth Century	60	(15)
DENNIS KENNEDY
Notes on the "Elizabethan" Avant-Garde	75	(10)
PETER WOMACK
The Suffrage Shrew: The Shakespeare Festival, "A Man's Play," and New Women	85	(18)
SUSAN CARLSON
Shakespeare and Joyce: Myriadminded Men	103	(10)
KLAUS REICHERT
Orson Welles's Othello: Shakespeare Meets Film Noir	113	(12)
ALFRED JACOBS
Civil Wars in the Rehearsal Room: Conflicting Theories in Collaborative Praxis	125	(12)
ELLEN J. O'BRIEN
Politicized with a Vengeance: East European Uses of Shakespeare's Great Tragedies	137	(11)
ALEXANDER SHURBANOV
Wooing in Festival Terms: Sonneteering Lovers, Rock, and Blues	148	(9)
MALGORZATA GRZEGORZEWSKA
Shakespeare and the Musical	157	(11)
TETSUO KISHI
Recent Australian Shrews: The "Larrikin Element"	168	(15)
PENNY GAY
"Welcome to Dreamland": Performance Theory, Postcolonial Discourse, and the Filming of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Angela Carter's Wise Children	183	(11)
ROGER APFELBAUM
"I've processed my guilt": Shakespeare, Branagh, and the Movies	194	(21)
MICHAEL HATTAWAY
Part Two: Twentieth-Century Readings of Shakespeare	215	(188)
Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Finding a Way Out	215	(16)
BARBARA EVERETT
Skepticism as Iconoclasm: The Saturation of the Shakespearean Text	231	(17)
STANLEY CAVELL
Hypertext as Editorial Horizon	248	(10)
PAUL WERSTINE
Feeling Bodies	258	(22)
GARY TAYLOR
Iris's "Rich Scarf" and "Ariachne's Broken Woof": Shakespeare's Mythology in the Twentieth Century	280	(14)
YVES PEYRE
Shakespeare's Dogs	294	(20)
MARJORIE GARBER
The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets	314	(22)
GEORGE T. WRIGHT
Shakespeare's Historicism: Visions and Revisions	336	(14)
PAOLA PUGLIATTI
Reading Hamlet in Japan	350	(14)
GRAHAM BRADSHAW
KAORI ASHIZU
Why Should We Call Her Whore? Bianca in Othello	364	(14)
EDWARD PECHTER
Rereading Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the fin de siecle	378	(12)
KAREN NEWMAN
Gender, Class, and Race in Japanese Translations of Shakespeare	390	(13)
YOSHIKO KAWACHI
Appendix A: Complete List of Papers from the Program of the Congress	403	(4)
Appendix B: Seminars, Workshops, Forums, Other Sessions, and Their Leaders	407	(3)
Contributors	410	(5)
Index	415