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Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Magdalena Cieslak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498563758

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When adapting Shakespeare's comedies, cinema and television have to address the differences and incompatibilities between early modern gender constructs and contemporary cultural, social, and political contexts. Screening Gender in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century analyzes methods employed by cinema and television in approaching those aspects of Shakespeare's comedies, indicating a range of ways in which adaptations made in the twenty-first century approach the problems of cultural and social normativity, gender politics, stereotypes of femininity and masculinity, the dynamic of power relations between men and women, and social roles of men and women. This book discusses both mainstream cinematic productions, such as Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice or Julie Taymor's The Tempest, and more low-key adaptations, such as Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the three comedies of BBC ShakespeaRe-Told miniseries: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book examines how the analyzed films deal with elements of Shakespeare's comedies that appear subversive, challenging, or offensive to today's culture, and how they interpret or update gender issues to reconcile Shakespeare with contemporary cultural norms. By exploring tensions and negotiations between early modern and present-day gender politics, the book defines the prevailing attitudes of recent adaptations in relation to those issues, and identifies the most popular strategies of accommodating early modern constructs for contemporary audiences.

Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Magdalena Cieślak,Cie&
Publisher : Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptati
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498563767

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Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies by Magdalena Cieślak,Cie& Pdf

This book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their source texts. Examining the negotiations between early modern and contemporary gender politics, Cieślak identifies the main strategies of accommodating early modern gender constructs for today's audiences.

As She Likes It

Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134862368

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As She Likes It by Penny Gay Pdf

As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage. Penny Gay takes a fascinating look at the way Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Measure for Measure have been staged over the last half a century, when perceptions of gender roles have undergone massive changes. She also interrogates, rigorously but thoughtfully, the relationship between a male theatrical establishment and a burgeoning feminist approach to performance. As illuminating for practitioners as it will be enjoyable and useful for students, As She Likes It will be critical reading for anyone interested in women's experience of theatre.

Comic Women, Tragic Men

Author : Linda Bamber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780804765695

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Comic Women, Tragic Men by Linda Bamber Pdf

This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

Comedy on Stage and Screen

Author : Wieland Schwanebeck
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823303817

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Comedy on Stage and Screen by Wieland Schwanebeck Pdf

This book introduces readers to the genre of comedy, both on the stage and on the screen. It chronicles the history of comedy, starting with Ancient Greece, before summarising key chapters in Anglophone literary history, such as Shakespearean comedy, Restoration comedy, and Theatre of the Absurd. The book features an overview of key comic techniques (including slapstick, puns, and wit), as well as concise summaries of major theoretical debates (including the superiority theory and the Freudian account of laughter). The book works with many examples from the history of Anglophone comedy, including Oscar Wilde, Monty Python, and classic sitcoms. It addresses current research into cringe humour and the controversial topic of diversity in the field of comedy, and it connects classical tropes of comedy (like the fool or the marriage plot) to present-day examples. The book thus serves as an up-to-date study guide for everyone interested in comedy and its various subgenres.

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation

Author : Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110328

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation by Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108421164

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Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

Author : David F. McCandless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253113342

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Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by David F. McCandless Pdf

"This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.

The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350138209

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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play by Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Author : Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009200950

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Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet by Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.

Shakespeare on Screen : The Roman Plays

Author : Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782877758420

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Shakespeare on Screen : The Roman Plays by Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

Is there a specificity to adapting a Roman play to the screen ? This volume interrogates the ways directors and actors have filmed and performed the Shakespearean works known as the "Roman plays", which are, in chronological order of writing, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. In the variety of plays and story lines, common questions nevertheless arise. Is there such a thing as filmic "Romanness"? By exploring the different ways in which the Roman plays are re-interpreted in the light of Roman history, film history and the Shakespearean tradition, the papers in this volume all take part in the ceaseless investigation of what the plays keep saying not only about our vision of the past, but also about our perception of the present.

Monologues from Shakespeare’s First Folio for Any Gender

Author : Paul Sugarman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781493056774

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Monologues from Shakespeare’s First Folio for Any Gender by Paul Sugarman Pdf

Curated by series editor Paul Sugarman from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologues from Shakespeare's works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Titles in the series: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Comedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Histories Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Women: The Comedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Women: The Histories Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Women: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Younger Men: The Comedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Younger Men: The Histories Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Younger Men: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Older Men: The Comedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Older Men: The Histories Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Older Men: The Tragedies

A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Author : Matthew Hodge,Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666936698

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A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor by Matthew Hodge,Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna Pdf

Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor's oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.

Queering the Shakespeare Film

Author : Anthony Guy Patricia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474237055

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Queering the Shakespeare Film by Anthony Guy Patricia Pdf

A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood as that which is at odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. The movies chosen for analysis correspond deliberately with those Shakespeare plays that, as written texts, have been subjected to a great deal of productive study in a queer context since the beginnings of queer theory in the early 1990s. Thus the book extends the ongoing queer discussion of these written texts to their counterpart cinematic texts. Queering the Shakespeare Film is a much-needed alternative and complementary critical history of the Shakespeare film genre.

Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Author : Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253210275

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether Pdf

While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.