The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.448 Monday, 24 November 2014
From: Alexa Huang <
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
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