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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Shakespeare Adaptation"”.
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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
… popular and frequently performed works from the Shakespeare canon. Although much has already been written on the play’s anti-Semitism, Shylock, and various individual productions, an in-depth global study of the Holocaust’s impact on performance remains untouched. This research, then, traces how …
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Shaping Shakespeare: How American Shakespeare Festivals Adapt Shakespeare’s Texts in the Twenty-First Century
<p>Shakespeare’s continued importance in American festival settings stems from adaptive and collaborative processes. In this study, adaptation refers to any reinterpretation of Shakespeare's works for contemporary contexts, while collaboration refers to the combined creative efforts among artists …
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Adaptations of Othello: (In)Adaptability and Transmedial Representations of Race
This thesis examines adaptations of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (c. 1601–4) across media, comparing cinematic, televisual, musical, visual art, and online adaptations, among others, in an endeavour to determine its adaptability in various periods and cultural …
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Conversations with Shakespeare: three contemporary adaptations for the stage
The study of adaptation, the practice of creating and producing literature, performance, music, and art that maintains a sustained engagement with an informing sourcetext or ‘original’ piece of literature, is a way of analyzing cultural, theoretical, and performance trends. This study takes up …
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Writing formations in Shakespearean films
… and socio-cultural contexts. The thesis analyses Shakespearean films because they offer multiple diachronic texts which are foregrounded as interpretations, and in which different approaches to filmmaking can be clearly compared and contrasted across time. They clarify the complex and often …