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.
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Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012

Contents

Introduction
  • 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