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The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.
The essays:
• analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation
• investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function
• put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority
• analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.
| List of figures | ||
| List of contributors | ||
| General editor's preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Appropriation in theory | |
| 1 | Alas, poor Shakespeare! I knew him well | 15 |
| 2 | Entry on Q | 33 |
| 3 | Romancing the Bard | 47 |
| 4 | Moor or less? The surveillance of Othello, Calcutta 1848 | 65 |
| Pt. 2 | Appropriation in practice | |
| 5 | Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres | 85 |
| 6 | Signifyin' on The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day | 103 |
| 7 | Accommodating the virago: Nineteenth-century representations of Lady Macbeth | 119 |
| 8 | The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning | 142 |
| 9 | The displaced body of desire: Sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet | 160 |
| 10 | Disney cites Shakespeare: The limits of appropriation | 179 |
| 11 | Afterword: The incredible shrinking Bard | 197 |
| Further reading | 206 | |
| References | 211 | |
| Index | 228 |
Overview
The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.
The essays:
• analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation
• investigate ...