Description
The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for example, global, virtual, digital, interactive, televisual, and cinematic Shakespeares.
In Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Dr. Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall assess this active world of Shakespeare adaptation and commercialization as we consider both novel and traditional forms: from experimental presentations (in-person and online) and literal rewritings of the plays/playwright to televised and filmic Shakespeares.
Ultimately, this collection sheds light, at least partially, on where critics think Shakespeare is now and where he and his works might be going in the near future and long-term. One conclusion is certain: however far we progress into the new century Shakespeare will be there.
In Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Dr. Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall assess this active world of Shakespeare adaptation and commercialization as we consider both novel and traditional forms: from experimental presentations (in-person and online) and literal rewritings of the plays/playwright to televised and filmic Shakespeares.
Ultimately, this collection sheds light, at least partially, on where critics think Shakespeare is now and where he and his works might be going in the near future and long-term. One conclusion is certain: however far we progress into the new century Shakespeare will be there.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Experimental Shakespeare: The Performance Interface Onstage, Onscreen, and Online
Part II: Reading and (Re)writing Shakespeare
Part III: Shakespeare on the Small Screen
Part IV: Cinematic Shakespeare
- Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall
Part I: Experimental Shakespeare: The Performance Interface Onstage, Onscreen, and Online
- Chapter One: The Macbeth Dance: Punchdrunk Theatre Company's Sleep No More Experience, Zachary Snider
- Chapter Two: A Rouge [sic] or a King? Locating Shakespeare in the Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series, James E. Wermers
- Chapter Three: King Lear "Live": Theatre as Cinema, Cinema as Theatre, Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall [summarized version]
- Chapter Four: Now You See Me, Now You— : Shakespeare in the National Video Archive of Performance at the V&A, Beverley Hart
Part II: Reading and (Re)writing Shakespeare
- Chapter Five: Just Shakespeare! Adapting Macbeth for Children's Literature, Marina Gerzic
- Chapter Six: Shakespeare Gets Graphic: Reinventing Shakespeare through Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga, Shannon R. Mortimore-Smith
- Chapter Seven: Remixing Richard, Ryan McCarthy
Part III: Shakespeare on the Small Screen
- Chapter Eight: The Fictional Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Emily Saidel
- Chapter Nine: "If You'll Excuse my Shakespeare": BBC's ShakespeaRE-Told Series, Daragh Downes
- Chapter Ten: Variations on Familiar Themes: Metadrama in Hamlet 2 and Slings and Arrows, Peter E. S. Babiak
Part IV: Cinematic Shakespeare
- Chapter Eleven: "Don't Call It a Comeback": Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It, Jessica Maerz
- Chapter Twelve: "The Villany You Teach Me, I Will Execute": Vengeance and Imitation in Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Jewish Revenge Film, Andrew Marzoni
- Chapter Thirteen: Multicultural Macbeths: Maqbool and Makibefo, Vanessa Gerhards