World-Wide Shakespeares Local Appropriations in Film and Performance

Half Title: World-wide Shakespeares......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyrights......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 Defining local Shakespeares......Page 18
Part One: Local Shakespeares for local audiences......Page 28
2 A Branch of the Blue Nile: Derek Walcott and the tropic of Shakespeare......Page 30
3 Political Pericles......Page 38
4 Shylock as crypto-Jew: A new Mexican adaptation of The Merchant of Venice......Page 46
5 Negotiating intercultural spaces: Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese stage......Page 55
6 ‘It is the bloody business which informs thus … ’ : Local politics and performative praxis, Macbeth in India......Page 62
Part Two: Local Shakespeares for national audiences......Page 70
7 Relocating and dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua’s Twelfth Night and Alexander Morfov’s The Tempest......Page 72
8 ‘I am not bound to please thee with my answers’: The Merchant of Venice on the post-war German stage......Page 80
9 Katherina ‘humanized’: Abusing the Shrew on the Prague stage......Page 87
10 Shooting the Hero: The cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser......Page 95
11 Lamentable tragedy or black comedy?: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s adaptation of Titus Andronicus......Page 103
12 Subjection and redemption in Pasolini’s Othello......Page 110
13 ‘Meaning by Shakespeare’ south of the border......Page 119
14 Dreams of England......Page 127
15 The cultural logic of ‘correcting’ The Merchant of Venice......Page 137
Part Three: Local Shakespeares for international audiences......Page 146
16 Dancing with art: Robert Lepage’s Elsinore......Page 148
17 Hekepia? The Mana1 of the Maori Merchant 2......Page 156
18 The Haiku Macbeth: Shakespearean antithetical minimalism in Kurosawa’s Kumonosu-jo......Page 164
19 Afterword......Page 172
Notes......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 190
Index......Page 208