Randall Martin, Katherine Scheil

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical connections among these fields, including the motivations, methods, and limits of adaptation in modern performance media.

MartinRandall:

Randall Martin is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

ScheilKatherine:

Katherine Scheil is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442689916
• Artikelnr.: 48945309

Autorenporträt

Randall Martin is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I. Shakespeare and Modern Drama
Chapter 1: Unwinding Coriolanus: Osborne, Grass and Brecht
Peter Holland
Chapter 2: Three Men in a Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold
Geulincx
Hersh Zeifman
Chapter 3: West Side Story and the Vestiges of Theatrical Liberalism
Andrea Most
Chapter 4: Staging Shakespeare for 'Live' Performance in The Eyre Affair
and Stage Beauty
Margaret Jane Kidnie
Chapter 5: Macbeth and Modern Politics
John H. Astington
Chapter 6: Shakespeare as Memoir
Katherine Scheil
Chapter 7: 'Bold, but Seemingly Marketable': The 2007 Stratford Ontario
Merchant
Robert Ormsby
PART II. Shakespeare
Chapter 8: 'To gain the language, 'tis needful that the most immodest word
be looked
upon and learnt': Editing the Bawdy in Henry IV, Part Two
James C. Bulman
Chapter 9: Extremes of Passion
Stanley Wells
Chapter 10: Shakespeare and the Indifference of Nature
Alexander Leggatt
Chapter 11: Pauline Cartography, Missionary Nationalism, and The Tempest
Randall Martin
Chapter 12: Lear's conversation with the philosopher
Hanna Scolnicov
PART III. Modern Drama
Chapter 13: An Experiment in Teaching: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady and the
Pursuit of Happiness
Alan Ackerman
Chapter 14: 'The Going To Pieces of T. Lawrence Shannon': Notes On
Tennessee Williams' Drafts of The Night of the Iguana (1961)
Brian Parker
Chapter 15: 'How do you play this game?': Nonsensical Language Games in
Shaw, Coward, and Pinter
Rebecca S. Cameron
Afterword: A Tapestry of Thanks: Reflections on the Work of Jill L.
Levenson
Jane Freeman
Jill L. Levenson's Publications
Index