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Rewriting Shakespeare's plays for and by the contemporary stage
Introduction. Meaning and motivations for a contemporary appropriation of Shakespeare's drama -- Part one : the rewriting process under scrutiny and its stakes. Chapter one. Unlearning tradition : William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jane Smiley's and Jocelyn Moorhouse's A thousand acres / Anne-Kathrin Marquardt -- Chapter two. Rewriting Macbeth : new witches for a new audience / Allene Nichols -- Chapter three. Rewriting through addition : contemporary walks in Shakespeare's woods / Dana Monah -- Part two : global Shakespeares : adaptation and performance. Chapter four. Fiction and the possibility of the ethical : rewriting Shakespeare and the intertextuality of Gayatri Spivak / Preti Taneja -- Chapter five. Shakespeare Mas : performance and recontextualisation of Julius Caesar on the Caribbean Carnival stage / Giselle Rampaul -- Chapter six. Kops' Hamlet : to-be-or-not-be a contemporary hero? A critical reading of The Hamlet of Stepney Green / Estelle Rivier -- Part three : European Shakespeares : challenging contemporaneity. Chapter seven. The bard does not want die (behind bars) : rewriting Shakespeare within Volterra Maximum-Security Prison / Mariacristina Cavecchi -- Chapter eight. A contemporary appropriation of the Tempest called 'Caliban's castle' / Margaret Rose -- Chapter nine. Topsy-turvying The merchant of Venice : Shylock as Wesker's response to the Renaissance Jew / Anne Etienne and Estelle Rivier -- General conclusion.
edited by Michael Dobson and Estelle Rivier-Arnaud.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-179).