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Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars. Each chapter also looks anew at a specific Shakespeare play from the perspective of a prevailing set of theories and metaphors. Having identified the key critics responsible for developing these metaphors and for framing the discussion in this way, Iyengar moves on to analyze afresh the implications of these critical frames for adaptation studies as a whole and for particular Shakespeare plays. Focusing each chapter around a different play, the book contrasts comic, tragic, and tragicomic modes in Shakespeare's oeuvre and within the major genres of adaptation (e.g., film, stage-production, novel and digital media). Each chapter seasons its theoretical discussions with a lively sprinkling of allusions to Shakespeare - ranging from TikTok to tissue-boxes, from folios and fine arts to fan work. To conclude each chapter, the author provides a case-study of three or four significant and interesting adaptations from different genres or media. A glossary of terms compiled by Philip Gilreath and the author completes the book.

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Author:   Sujata Iyengar ,  Dr Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
ISBN:  

9781350073586

ISBN 10:   135007358
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Sources Used Introduction: Much Ado About Adaptation What or Whom are we Adapting? Metaphors We Adapt By Adaptation as Annotation in Much Ado 1. Plants, Off-shoots, Genes: Rhizomes Plants Off-shoots Genes Rhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests 2. Art, Property, Theft: Appropriation Art Property Theft Appropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona) 3. Fidelity, Families, Ethics: Derivatives Fidelity Families: Lear among the Editors Ethics and Editing Derivatives: Lear’s Progeny 4. Transfer, Remediation, Broadcast: Intermedia Transfer Remediation Broadcast and Podcast Intermedia: Audio Hamlets 5. Memes, Networks, Fans: Transformations Memes Networks Fans Transformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night 6. Relocation, Translation, Hybridization: Tradaptation Relocation Translation Hybridization Tradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles 7. Accidents, Remains, Traces: Accommodations Accidents Remains Traces Accommodations: Romeo and Juliet Glossary of Selected Terms, Philip Gilreath with Sujata Iyengar Notes References Index

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Sujata Iyengar is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA. She is the author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin-Color in Early Modern England (2005), Shakespeare’s Medical Language (The Arden Shakespeare, 2011); editor of Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (2015); and co-author of ‘Not Like an Old Play’: Love’s Labour’s Lost de William Shakespeare (2014). With Christy Desmet, she co-founded and remains editor of the award-winning, online, multimedia, scholarly periodical Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

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