Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations.
Gerzic, Marina.
Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages) - Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Series . - Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 5.1 A Scene From Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Issue 19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Image Courtesy of Dc Comics -- 7.1 Shakespeare Republic Season One Cast (L-R): Ben Steel, Michala Banas, Alan Fletcher, Rowena Hutson, Sally Mclean, and Billy Smedley. Photo By Yanni Dellaportas. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.2 Michala Banas as "Phebe" in Season One of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By James Dene. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.3 Nadine Garner as "Viola" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.4 Christopher Kirby as "Sir Thomas More" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.5 Billy Smedley as "Henry V" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.6 Speaking Daggers Cast: Jaron Natoli, Christopher Kirby, Nadine Garner, Sally Mclean, Scott Major, Faran Martin, Billy Smedley, and Michala Banas. Photo By Christoph Ziegenhardt. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 8.1 Suit of Armour at the Battle of Bosworth Re-Enactment, August 2017. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly -- 8.2 Sara Beer in Richard III Redux, on Location at Cilgerran Castle Near Cardigan (West Wales) for the Atmospheric Video Shoot (With Paul Whittaker, Videographer) that Opens the Performance. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly -- 8.3 Sara Beer as The 'National Treasure' Researching 'Her' R/Richard as a Six-Foot Four Non-Disabled Rugby Player -- 8.4 Sara Beer… Unable to 'Disappear' Into a Role -- 9.1 Mathew Baynton as William Shakespeare in Horrible Histories (Left) and as Bill Shakespeare in Bill. Images Courtesy of the BBC and BBC Films. 9.2 From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare) and Rupert Everett (Marlowe) in Shakespeare in Love -- Jim Howick (Marlowe) and Mathew Baynton (Shakespeare) in Bill. Images Courtesy of Miramax and BBC Films -- 10.1 Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) Tells Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) that Viola has "Been Plucked… and Not By You" in Shakespeare in Love. Image Courtesy of Miramax -- 10.2 Elizabeth I (Emma Thompson) Thanks Will Shakespeare (David Mitchell) for the Gift of Poetry, Which has Evidently Moved Her. Image from Upstart Crow Courtesy of the BBC -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 "Did Shakespeare Really Write This Racy Stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations -- Section I: Page to Stage/Stage to Page -- 2 "This Great Stage of Fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear -- 3 "Covering the Main Points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed -- 4 "I Wish the Bastards Dead": Adapting Richard III in Children's Literature -- 5 Playing with Genre and Form: The 'Magic Art' of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare -- 6 When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett'S Wyrd Sisters -- Section II: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen -- 7 Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic -- 8 An Irreverent Richard III Redux: [Re]Cripping the Crip -- Section III: Adapting the Man -- 9 Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare 'Origin Story' -- 10 William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship? -- Section IV: Adapting the Plays -- 11 Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism -- 12 Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare -- 13 "What'S in a Gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet -- Index.
Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new 'Shakespeares' to emerge, revealing Shakespeare's ongoing impact in popular culture.
9781000073126
Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Adaptations-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR2880.A1 / .P539 2020
822.33
Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages) - Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Series . - Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 5.1 A Scene From Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Issue 19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Image Courtesy of Dc Comics -- 7.1 Shakespeare Republic Season One Cast (L-R): Ben Steel, Michala Banas, Alan Fletcher, Rowena Hutson, Sally Mclean, and Billy Smedley. Photo By Yanni Dellaportas. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.2 Michala Banas as "Phebe" in Season One of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By James Dene. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.3 Nadine Garner as "Viola" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.4 Christopher Kirby as "Sir Thomas More" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.5 Billy Smedley as "Henry V" in Season Two of Shakespeare Republic. Photo By Shaun Herbertson. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 7.6 Speaking Daggers Cast: Jaron Natoli, Christopher Kirby, Nadine Garner, Sally Mclean, Scott Major, Faran Martin, Billy Smedley, and Michala Banas. Photo By Christoph Ziegenhardt. Copyright © Incognita Enterprises 2016 -- 8.1 Suit of Armour at the Battle of Bosworth Re-Enactment, August 2017. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly -- 8.2 Sara Beer in Richard III Redux, on Location at Cilgerran Castle Near Cardigan (West Wales) for the Atmospheric Video Shoot (With Paul Whittaker, Videographer) that Opens the Performance. Photo: Kaite O'Reilly -- 8.3 Sara Beer as The 'National Treasure' Researching 'Her' R/Richard as a Six-Foot Four Non-Disabled Rugby Player -- 8.4 Sara Beer… Unable to 'Disappear' Into a Role -- 9.1 Mathew Baynton as William Shakespeare in Horrible Histories (Left) and as Bill Shakespeare in Bill. Images Courtesy of the BBC and BBC Films. 9.2 From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare) and Rupert Everett (Marlowe) in Shakespeare in Love -- Jim Howick (Marlowe) and Mathew Baynton (Shakespeare) in Bill. Images Courtesy of Miramax and BBC Films -- 10.1 Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) Tells Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) that Viola has "Been Plucked… and Not By You" in Shakespeare in Love. Image Courtesy of Miramax -- 10.2 Elizabeth I (Emma Thompson) Thanks Will Shakespeare (David Mitchell) for the Gift of Poetry, Which has Evidently Moved Her. Image from Upstart Crow Courtesy of the BBC -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 "Did Shakespeare Really Write This Racy Stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations -- Section I: Page to Stage/Stage to Page -- 2 "This Great Stage of Fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear -- 3 "Covering the Main Points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed -- 4 "I Wish the Bastards Dead": Adapting Richard III in Children's Literature -- 5 Playing with Genre and Form: The 'Magic Art' of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare -- 6 When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett'S Wyrd Sisters -- Section II: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen -- 7 Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic -- 8 An Irreverent Richard III Redux: [Re]Cripping the Crip -- Section III: Adapting the Man -- 9 Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare 'Origin Story' -- 10 William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship? -- Section IV: Adapting the Plays -- 11 Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism -- 12 Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare -- 13 "What'S in a Gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet -- Index.
Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new 'Shakespeares' to emerge, revealing Shakespeare's ongoing impact in popular culture.
9781000073126
Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Adaptations-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR2880.A1 / .P539 2020
822.33