Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama : : Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson / / Randall Martin, Katherine Scheil.

• VerfasserIn: Martin, Randall,; Scheil, Katherine,
• MitwirkendeR: Ackerman, Alan,; Astington, John H.,; Bulman, James C.,; Cameron, Rebecca S.,; Freeman, Jane,; Holland, Peter,; Kidnie, Margaret Jane,; Leggatt, Alexander,; Martin, Randall,; Most, Andrea,; Ormsby, Robert,; Parker, Brian,; Scheil, Katherine,; Scolnicov, Hanna,; Wells, Stanley,; Zeifman, Hersh,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The relationship between modern drama and Shakespeare remains intense and fruitful, as Shakespearian themes continue to permeate contemporary plays, films, and other art-forms. Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media. Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare and modern drama in the context of current literary theories and historical accounts of adaptive and appropriative practices. Among the diverse and intriguing examples studied are the authorial self-adaptations of Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, and the generic and political appropriations of Shakespeare's texts in television, musical theatre, and memoir. This illuminating and theoretically astute tribute to Renaissance and modern drama scholar Jill Levenson will stimulate further research on the evolving adaptive and intertextual relationships between influential literary works and periods.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I. Shakespeare and Modern Drama -- 1 Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass, and Brecht -- 2 Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx -- 3 West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism -- 4 Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair and Stage Beauty -- 5 Macbeth and Modern Politics -- 6 Shakespeare as Memoir -- 7 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario Merchant -- PART II. Shakespeare -- 8 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word be looked upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two -- 9 Extremes of Passion -- 10 Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature -- 11 Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest -- 12 Lear's Conversation with the Philosopher -- PART III. Modern Drama -- 13 An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- 14 'The Going to Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes on Tennessee Williams's Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961) -- 15 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in Shaw, Coward, and Pinter -- Afterword A Tapestry of Thanks: Reflections on the Work of Jill L. Levenson -- Jill L. Levenson's Publications -- Index