World-wide Shakespeares : local appropriations in film and performance / edited by Sonia Massai.

General note: "This collection grew out of a seminar on "Critical and Creative Appropriations of Shakespeare" held at the International Shakespeare Association Congress in Valencia in April 2001"--Acknowledgements. Formerly CIP. Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Defining local Shakespeares / Sonia Massai - A branch of the blue Nile : Derek Walcott and the tropic of Shakespeare / Tobias Doring - Political Pericles / Suzanne Gossett - Shylock as crypto-Jew : a new Mexican adaptation of The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Klein and Michael Shapiro - Negotiating intercultural spaces : Much ado about nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese stage / Ruru Li - "It is the bloody business which informs thus ..." : local politics and performative praxis, Macbeth in India / Poonam Trivedi - Relocating and dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua's Twelfth night and Alexander Morfov's The tempest / Boika Sokolova - "I am not bound to please thee with my answers" : The merchant of Venice on the post-war German stage / Sabine Schulting - Katherina "humanized" : abusing the shrew on the Prague stage / Marcela Kostihova - Shooting the hero : the cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser / Ton Hoenselaars - UkBU. Lamentable tragedy or black comedy? : Friedrich Durrenmatt's adaptation of Titus Andronicus / Lukas Erne - Subjection and redemption in Pasolini's Othello / Sonia Massai - "Meaning by Shakespeare" south of the border / Alfredo Michel Modenessi - Dreams of England / Robert Shaughnessy - The cultural logic of "correcting" The merchant of Venice / Maria Jones - Dancing with art : Robert Lepage's Elsinore / Margaret Jane Kidnie - Hekepia? : the mana of the Maori merchant / Mark Houlahan - The haiku Macbeth : Shakespearean antithetical minimalism in Kurosawa's Kumonosu-jo / Saviour Catania UkBU.