Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama : : Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson /

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

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 con...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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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

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