Local and global myths in Shakespearean performance
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Local and global myths in Shakespearean performance
（Reproducing Shakespeare : new studies in adaptation and appropriation）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines historical, political, and cultural conditions of Shakespearean performances in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. The first part of this volume offers a theoretical introduction to Shakespeare as myth from a twenty-first century perspective. The second part critically evaluates myths of linguistic transcendence, authenticity, and universality within broader European, neo-liberal, and post-colonial contexts. The study of local identities and global icons in the third part uncovers dynamic relationships between regional, national, and transnational myths of Shakespeare. The fourth part revises persistent narratives concerning a political potential of Shakespeare's plays in communist and post-communist countries. Finally, part five explores the influence of commercial and popular culture on Shakespeare myths. Michael Dobson's Afterword concludes the volume by locating Shakespeare within classical mythology and contemporary concerns.
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CONTENTS
0. Preface
1. Introduction. Alexa Alice Joubin and Aneta Mancewicz
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. Bettina Boecker
3. The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare. Marcela Kostihova
4. Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet. Kevin A. Quarmby
Part II Myths of Local Identities and Global Icons
5. Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a "German Shakespeare." Dan Venning
6. Shakespeare beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective. Benedict Schofield
7. "Tupi or not tupi, that is the question": Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Anna Stegh Camati
Part III Myths of Political Shakespeare
8. Hamlet and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance. Emily Oliver
9. Denmark's a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet after 1989 in Lin Zhaohua's Hamulaite and Jan Klata's H. Saffron Vickers Walkling
10. Hamlet in Times of War - Two Appropriations of Shakespeare's Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Alexandra Portmann
11. "Come, let's away to prison": Local and Global Myths, and "Political Shakespeare" in Twenty-First Century Russia. Aleksandra Sakowska
Part IV Shakespeare as Myth in Commercial and Popular Culture
12. Localising a Global Myth - Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear. Kinga Foeldvary
13. Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations.
Frank Widar Brevik
14. The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today's Japanese Stage. Ryuta Minami
Afterword
15. Shakespeare and Myth. Michael Dobson
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