Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Hamlet: Looking Before and After: Why So Many Prequels and Sequels?....Pages 17-31
Educating for Pleasure: The Textual Relations of She’s the Man....Pages 32-46
‘Brush up your Shakespeare’: Genre-Shift from Shakespeare to the Screen....Pages 47-62
Cinematizing Shakespeare....Pages 63-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Circulating through ‘languages and tales’: Stephen Greenblatt’s Cardenio....Pages 77-91
Peter Ackroyd’s Shakespeare the Biography and Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World, or Facts and Fiction about William Shakespeare....Pages 92-103
The Weird Sisters (from The Life and Death of the Brothers Macbeth)....Pages 104-121
‘You kiss like in a movie’: A Contemporary Translation/Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet....Pages 122-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
At the Threshold — Remembrance and Topicality in Recent Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany....Pages 143-161
Kabuki Shakespeare: The NINAGAWA Twelfth Night....Pages 162-173
‘Downright unsaxogrammatical’? — Do Postcolonial Adaptations Contest, or Reinforce Shakespeare’s Canonical Status?....Pages 174-192
‘My dream was lengthened after life’: Ghosts in Michael Boyd’s History Cycle....Pages 193-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
‘Four legs and two voices’: An Interview with Édouard Lekston....Pages 207-241
Shakespearean Visual Semiotics and the Silver Screen....Pages 242-254
‘Here’s that shall make you dance’: Movement and Meaning in Bern:Ballett’s Julia und Romeo....Pages 255-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby’s Quietus....Pages 271-285
The Act of Murder: Renaissance Tragedy and the Detective Novel....Pages 286-300
Fishing at the Swan: Swan Theatre Plays and the Shaping of an Interpretive Community....Pages 301-317
Back Matter....Pages 318-325