South Africa's Shakespeare and the Drama of Language and Identity

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Seeff, Adele (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Global Shakespeares
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern.; African literature.; Theater.; Sociolinguistics.; African languages.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; African Literature.; Global/International Theatre and Performance.; African Languages.

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity. A case study approach demonstrates how Shake...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The African Theatre, Cape Town, 1801
• 3. The Shakespeare Diaspora
• 4. André Brink's Kinkels innie Kabel: Political Vision and Linguistic Virtuosity
• 5. John Kani as Othello at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg
• 6. Shakespeare in Mzansi
• 7. Afterword.