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Shakespeare and appropriation / edited by Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer.

  • Accession number

    83414959

  • Class

    HOD - 62/SHA/DES

  • ISBN

    0415207258, 0415207266 (pbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    240p. ; 28 cm.

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General note: Includes index. Contains essays that analyse the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation; investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function; put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority; and analyse works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies Bibliography, etc. note: Bibliography. Formatted contents note: Alas, poor Shakespeare! I knew him well / Ivo Kamps -- Entry on Q / Terence Hawkes -- Romancing the Bard / Laurie E. Osborne -- Moor or less? : the surveillance of Othello, Calcutta 1848 / Sudipto Chatterjee and Jyotsna G. Singh -- Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Caroline Cakebread -- Signifyin' on The tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama day / James R. Andreas, Sr. -- Accommodating the virago: nineteenth century representations of Lady Macbeth / Georgianna Ziegler -- The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning / Robert Sawyer -- The displaced body of desire : sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Lisa S. Starks -- Disney cites Shakespeare : the limits of appropriation / Richard Finkelstein -- Afterword: The incredible shrinking Bard / Gary Taylor.