World-Wide Shakespeares Local Appropriations in Film and Performance [Hardcover]

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeares plays in film and performance around the world.

In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at local Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between centre and periphery, and big-time and small-time Shakespeares.

Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.

List of contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Defining Local Shakespeares Sonia Massai  Part 1: Local Shakespeares for Local Audiences  2. A Branch of the Blue Nile: Derek Walcott and the Tropic of Shakespeare Tobias D?ring  3. Political Pericles Suzanne Gossett  4. Shylock as Crypto-Jew: A New Mexican Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice Elizabeth KleinandMichael Shapiro  5. Negotiating Intercultural Spaces: Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese Stage Ruru Li  6. It is the bloody business which informs thus &  Local Politics and Performative Praxis: Macbeth in India Poonam Trivedi  Part 2: Local Shakespeares for National Audiences  7. Relocating and Dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturuas Twelfth Night and Alexander Morfovs The Tempest Boika Sokolova ló»