Browsing Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2024) vol. 29 by Issue Date
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Book Reviews
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Contributors
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Radicalising Shakespeare: Staging the Sri Lankan Juliet in Julietge Bhumikawa
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)Through an analysis of the Sri Lankan film, Julietge Bhumikawa (1998) (Illusions of Juliet), I argue that the film radicalizes Shakespeare-inspired film through providing a bold site of enunciation to the character of ... -
The Cultural Paradox of All-Male Performance: (Dis)Figuring the Third Beauty in the Studio Life’s Twelfth Night
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)The aim of this article is to explore the ambiguous and unstable boundaries of gender images depicted in Studio Life’s Twelfth Night (2011) where male actors perform female characters similar to the practice on the ... -
A Tempest and The Tempest: Aimé Césaire and Shakespeare
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)Through an analysis of the play, the article seeks to demonstrate that Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest is a “reinscription” of Shakespeare’s The Tempest as “a drama of rebellion.” It is told from the point of view of “the loser”, ... -
“Yet in His Idle Fire:” Once More unto the Bertram and All’s Well
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)As a bitter comedy, a dark comedy, and a problem play (all of these so-called), All’s Well has suffered both neglect in the theater for most of its post-creation existence, and vilification from critics for over two ... -
Figuring Displacement: Spaces of Imagination in Early Modern and Postmodern Intertextual Transmissions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)This essay examines, ecocritically, geocritically, and comparatively, the metaphoric spaces represented in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and in Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters—seas, mountains, islands, ... -
Introduction
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Shylock in Fuquieo: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and the Trial of a Portuguese Stranger by China’s Courts in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)In 1548, the Portuguese merchant Galeotto Perera was captured along with his shipmates in the waters off China’s southeastern coast. In his account of his time as a prisoner in Fuquieo (in contemporary Fujian province), ... -
Reclaiming Cross-Dressing: Masculinity Construction in the All-Female Yue Opera’s Shakespearean Adaptations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)Because it offers the stage such scope for polyerotic interpretation, crossdressing has held an irresistible appeal to theatre practitioners across times and cultures, including Shakespeare in early modern England. The ... -
Aberrant Shakespeare: Ron Athey’s Excesses, Bataille’s Solar Anus, Becomings-Macbeth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)l In this article we argue that Ron Athey’s performance Solar Anus is an aberrant adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in which the parodic world of abundant excess that the witches catalyze is redemptively captured and ... -
Theatre Reviews
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Shakespeare and Covid Drama in This England (Winterbottom, 2022)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)This article considers the significance of different Shakespearean allusions in a political docudrama miniseries This England (2022), directed for Sky by Michael Winterbottom and scripted by Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke. ... -
Exploring the Visual and Performative Appropriation of Shakespeare in Pakistani Theatres
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-09-18)This research paper examines the experimental nature of appropriation focusing on The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) renditions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603) and Richard III (1597). It investigates how these ... -
Tom Clayton (December 15, 1932 – August 9, 2023)
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Shakespeare Translators’ Voices: The 21st Century Perspective
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