Romeo and Juliet, adaptation and the arts : 'cut him out in little stars' /
Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated, and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play's dispersal into neighboring art forms, including ballet, opera, television...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Arden Shakespeare,
[2022].
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| Series: | Shakespeare and adaptation.
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| Summary: | Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated, and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play's dispersal into neighboring art forms, including ballet, opera, television and architecture, and geographical locations, including Italy, Ireland, France, India and Korea. Chapters trace Shakespeare's own acts of adaptation and appropriation of sources and the play's subsequent migrations into other media. Part One considers reworkings of Romeo and Juliet in Berlioz's 1839 choral symphony and ballets choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan and John Neumeier. Part Two explores the afterlives of Shakespeare's lovers in the narrative forms of fiction, film and serial television, including Joyce, Beckett and HBO's series Westworld. Part Three examines dramatic adaptations of the play into other languages, dialects and cultural contexts. Authors consider Hindi translations and the complex and changing status of Shakespeare's work in India, and productions of the play in Korea set against its evolving history. The volume ends with a first-person account of staging Romeo and Juliet at an HBCU (historically Black college/university), documenting the fundamentally alienating presence of Shakespeare for oppressed communities. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350109209 1350109207 9781350343429 1350343420 |