The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.448  Monday, 24 November 2014

 

From:        Alexa Huang <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         November 22, 2014 at 9:17:20 AM EST

Subject:    Book Announcement: Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation

 

Book Announcement: Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation 

 

Edited by Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

 

At a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated ‘Shakespeare’ constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines.

 

Available in e-book (PDF) and hardback formats

 

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/shakespeare-and-the-ethics-of-appropriation-alexa-huang/?K=9781137375766

 

Table of Contents

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/toc/1137375760/ref=dp_toc/278-1375004-4746421?ie=UTF8&n=266239

 

Introduction; Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin

 

1. Shakespearean Rhizomatics: Adaptation, Ethics, Value; Doug Lanier

2. Recognizing Shakespeare, Rethinking Fidelity: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Appropriation; Christy Desmet 

3. Ethics and the Undead: Reading Shakespearean (Mis)appropriation in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula; Adrian Streete

4. Adaptation Revoked: Knowledge, Ethics, and Trauma in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres; Elizabeth Rivlin

5. Double Jeopardy: Shakespeare and Prison Theater; Courtney Lehmann

6. Theatre Director as Unelected Representative: Sulayman Al-Bassam's Arab Shakespeare Trilogy; Margaret Litvin

7. A "whirl of aesthetic terminology": Swinburne, Shakespeare, and Ethical Criticism; Robert Sawyer

8. "Raw-Savage" Othello: The First Staged Japanese Adaptation of Othello (1903) and Japanese Colonialism; Yukari Yoshihara

9. The Bard in Bollywood: The Fraternal Nation and Shakespearean Adaptation in Hindi Cinema; Gitanjali Shahani and Brinda Charry

10. Multilingual Ethics in Henry V and Henry VIII; Ema Vyroubalová

11. In Other Words: Global Shakespearean Transformations; Sheila T. Cavanagh

 

Afterword: "State of Exception": Forgetting Hamlet; Thomas Cartelli

 

Appendix: For the Record: Interview with Sulayman Al-Bassam; Margaret Litvin 

 

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