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Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies. The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading. The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia – Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier’s concept of the ‘rhizomatic’ approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often ‘unfaithfully’ in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.

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Author:   Rita Banerjee (CSSSC, Kolkata) ,  Yilin Chen (Providence University, Taiwan)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury India
Imprint:   Bloomsbury India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789356404434

ISBN 10:   9356404437
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Politics and Shakespeare’s Plays Introduction Chapter 1: Something for All the Family: Family Values in Titus Andronicus - W. P. Williams Chapter 2: Spectacles of Violent Revenge: Gendering of Power and Politics in Titus Andronicus - Swati Ganguly Chapter 3: Women and Madness: A Comparative Study of the Angel and the Demon in Ophelia and Lady Macbeth - Sraddha Nag Chapter 4: Spectacle and Subversion: Interrogation of Dynasty in Macbeth -Alka Rakesh Chapter 5: Comparing Henry V and Yudhi??hira: Politics of Kingship in King Henry V and The Mahabharata - Vinod Singh Chapter 6: Ideologies of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Cymbeline - Rita Banerjee Asian Adaptations and Contemporary Politics Chapter 7: Whose Dream Is Wu Hsing-kuo’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Searching for Multilingual Identity in Contemporary Taiwanese Shakespeare - Yilin Chen Chapter 8: ‘Our Perdita is found’: The Politics of Trust and Risk in The Winter’s Tale Directed by Satoshi Miyagi - Ted Motohashi Chapter 9: Over a Century of Hamlets in Bengal - Rita Banerjee Chapter 10: Shakespeare’s Spirit, Chinese Characteristics: Transplanting Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese Stage - Yujing Ma Chapter 11:‘Josh-e-Jawani’ and the Politics of Love in 10ml Love - Saba Bashir

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Rita Banerjee is currently affiliated to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India as a researcher. Yilin Chen is Professor in the Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, and Director of the Global Foreign Language Education Program in Providence University (Taiwan).

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