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Author: Marina Gerzic ,
Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367256463
ISBN 10: 0367256460
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 15 June 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From Victorian burlesque to contemporary graphic novels, this collection provides a range of material for the reader interested in Shakespearean adaptation of drama...the range covered in this collection is extensive. Overall, the collection offers thoughtful and wide-ranging new insights into the concepts of play and irreverence in Shakespearean adaptations for readers old and new. -- Jennifer E. Nicholson, The University of Sydney, Parergon 38.2 (2021)
From Victorian burlesque to contemporary graphic novels, this collection provides a range of material for the reader interested in Shakespearean adaptation of drama...the range covered in this collection is extensive. Overall, the collection offers thoughtful and wide-ranging new insights into the concepts of play and irreverence in Shakespearean adaptations for readers old and new. -- Jennifer E. Nicholson, The University of Sydney, Parergon 38.2 (2021)
From Victorian burlesque to contemporary graphic novels, this collection provides a range of material for the reader interested in Shakespearean adaptation of drama...the range covered in this collection is extensive. Overall, the collection offers thoughtful and wide-ranging new insights into the concepts of play and irreverence in Shakespearean adaptations for readers old and new. -- Jennifer E. Nicholson, The University of Sydney, Parergon 38.2 (2021) Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations introduces a range of both mediums and methods of adaptation, many of which have received relatively little critical attention... Overall, the book successfully provides a wide-ranging overview of the role of play and playfulness in adaptations of Shakespeare, giving examples that vary in scope, period, and medium. -- Anna Quercia-Thomas, The University of Western Australia, Limina: a Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies 27.2 (2022)
Author Information
Marina Gerzic works for the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Inc., and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia in both research and administration roles, and is the editorial assistant for the academic journals Parergon and Shakespeare Bulletin. She is the editor, with Aidan Norrie, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge), and has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and children’s literature. Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and a Chancellor’s International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. Aidan is the editor, with Marina Gerzic, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge); with Lisa Hopkins, of Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press); and, with Mark Houlahan, of New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections (Medieval Institute Publications). Aidan is currently working on a monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule, which is forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.
