Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mancewicz, Aneta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Joubin, Alexa Alice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Reproducing Shakespeare
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern.; Comparative literature.; Literature .; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I Myths of Linguistic Transcendence, Authenticity, Universality
• 2. "Europe Speaks Shakespeare": Karin Beier's 1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Multilingual Performance and the Myth of Shakespeare's Linguistic Transcendence
• 3. The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare
• 4. Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet
• Part II Myths of Local Identities and Global Icons
• 5. Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a "German Shakespeare"
• 6. Shakespeare Beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective
• 7. "Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question": Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare's Hamlet
• Part III Myths of Political Shakespeare
• 8. Hamlet and the Fall of Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance
• 9. Denmark's a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet After 1989 in Lin Zhaohua's Hamulaite and Jan Klata's H
• 10. Hamlet in Times of War: Two Appropriations of Shakespeare's Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
• 11. "Come, Let's Away to Prison": Local and Global Myths, and "Political Shakespeare" in Twenty-First Century Russia
• Part IV Shakespeare as Myth in Commercial and Popular Culture
• 12. Localizing a Global Myth: Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear
• 13. Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations
• 14. The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today's Japanese Stage
• 15. Afterword: Shakespeare and Myth.