Shakespeare and Appropriation

Name: Shakespeare and Appropriation
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ISBN: 9780415207263

ISBN-10: 0415207266

ISBN-13: 9780415207263

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christy Desmet, Robert Sawyer

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The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. The essays in this collection show how imitation maintains Shakespeare's place in the cultural conversation.

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


General editor's preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction




Appropriation in Theory



Alas, Poor Shakespeare! I Knew Him




Entry on Q




Romancing the Bard




Moor or Less?: The Surveillance of Othello , Calcutta 1848




Appropriation in Practice



Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres




Signifyin' on The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's




Accommodating the Virago: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Lady Macbeth




The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning




The Displaced Body of Desire: Sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet




Disney Cites Shakespeare: The Limits of Appropriation




Afterword: The Incredible Shrinking BardGary Taylor Further Reading



Bibliography


Index