Shakespeare and the Political Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies
Synopsis
Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies. The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading.The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia – Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier's concept of the 'rhizomatic' approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often 'unfaithfully' in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.Book details
- Author:
- Rita Banerjee and Yilin Chen
- ISBN:
- 9789356404335
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2024-06-18
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Copyright by:
- Rita Banerjee, Yilin Chen and contributors
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction