Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Author: Marjorie Garber

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307390969

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From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.

Reinventing Shakespeare
Reinventing Shakespeare

Author: Gary Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 9780099819707

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Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his plays through the centuries, arguing that claims of his uniqueness reflect the characteristics of particular eras and critics more than Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters

Author: Geraldo U. De Sousa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0230286658

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In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. In this way, the dramatist questions the narrowness of a European perspective which caricatures other societies and views them with suspicion. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat. Written in a provocative style, this readable book provides a wealth of fascinating information both on contemporary stage productions and on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.

Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance

Author: Paul Edward Yachnin

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780754655855

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Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture
Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture

Author: Douglas Lanier

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9780198187066

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Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children's books, kitsch, and advertising. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in twentieth-century popular culture, amd argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.

Cultural Shakespeare
Cultural Shakespeare

Author: Graham Holderness

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781902806112

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Contains essays on Shakespeare published in books and journals between 1985 and 1997.

Shakespeare's Caliban
Shakespeare's Caliban

Author: Alden T. Vaughan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521458177

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Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history. The authors, one a historian and the other a Shakespearean, explore the cultural background of Caliban's creation in 1611 and his disparate metamorphoses to the present time.

Shakespeare's Cultural Capital
Shakespeare's Cultural Capital

Author: Dominic Shellard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1137583169

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Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From the marketing of Shakespeare’s plays on and off stage, to the wider impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence
Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Author: Emma Depledge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1108667341

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Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.

Shakespeare and National Culture
Shakespeare and National Culture

Author: John J. Joughin

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780719050510

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Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.