Overview

The relationship between modern drama and Shakespeare remains intense and fruitful, as Shakespearian themes continue to permeate contemporary plays, films, and other art-forms. Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media. Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare and modern drama in the context of current literary theories and historical accounts of adaptive and appropriative practices. Among the diverse and intriguing examples studied are the authorial self-adaptations of Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, and the generic and political appropriations of Shakespeare's texts in television, musical theatre, and memoir. This illuminating and theoretically astute tribute to Renaissance and modern drama scholar Jill Levenson will stimulate further research on the evolving adaptive and intertextual relationships between influential literary works and periods.

Full Product Details

Author:   Randall Martin ,  Katherine Scheil
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781442641747

ISBN 10:   1442641746
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   02 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I. Shakespeare and Modern Drama Chapter 1: Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass and Brecht Peter Holland Chapter 2: Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx Hersh Zeifman Chapter 3: West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism Andrea Most Chapter 4: Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair and Stage Beauty Margaret Jane Kidnie Chapter 5: Macbeth and Modern Politics John H. Astington Chapter 6: Shakespeare as Memoir Katherine Scheil Chapter 7: 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario Merchant Robert Ormsby PART II. Shakespeare Chapter 8: 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word be looked upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two James C. Bulman Chapter 9: Extremes of Passion Stanley Wells Chapter 10: Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature Alexander Leggatt Chapter 11: Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest Randall Martin Chapter 12: Lear's conversation with the philosopher Hanna Scolnicov PART III. Modern Drama Chapter 13: An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady and the Pursuit of Happiness Alan Ackerman Chapter 14: 'The Going To Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes On Tennessee Williams' Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961) Brian Parker Chapter 15: 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in Shaw, Coward, and Pinter Rebecca S. Cameron Afterword: A Tapestry of Thanks: Reflections on the Work of Jill L. Levenson Jane Freeman Jill L. Levenson's Publications Index

Reviews

'An extremely worthwhile collection of essays from distinguished group of scholars, showing the varied ways drama can be adapted and appropriated and refashioned into new genres and forms.' -- Dan Venning Shakespeare Quarterly vol 65:03:2014

Author Information

Randall Martin is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. Katherine Scheil is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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