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Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama

Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson

by (author) Randall Martin & Katherine Scheil

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2011
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442641747
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442689916
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $87.00

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Description

The relationship between modern drama and Shakespeare remains intense and fruitful, as Shakespearian themes continue to permeate contemporary plays, films, and other art-forms. 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.

Top scholars including Peter Holland, Alexander Leggatt, Brian Parker, and Stanley Wells examine such topics as the relationship between Shakespeare and modern drama in the context of current literary theories and historical accounts of adaptive and appropriative practices. Among the diverse and intriguing examples studied are the authorial self-adaptations of Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, and the generic and political appropriations of Shakespeare's texts in television, musical theatre, and memoir. This illuminating and theoretically astute tribute to Renaissance and modern drama scholar Jill Levenson will stimulate further research on the evolving adaptive and intertextual relationships between influential literary works and periods.

About the authors

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

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

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Editorial Reviews

‘An extremely worthwhile collection of essays from distinguished group of scholars, showing the varied ways drama can be adapted and appropriated and refashioned into new genres and forms.’

Shakespeare Quarterly vol 65:03:2014