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Culture-blind Shakespeare : Multiculturalism and Diversity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443886321
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture-blind ShakespeareDDC classification:
  • 822.33
LOC classification:
  • PR2976 -- .C858 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Shakespeare and Diversity -- The Once and Future Bard -- King Lear -- The Failure of Faith in Hamlet -- "Crushed with a Plot" -- Vision of the Ideal Marriage in Much Ado about Nothing -- Language Functions in The Tempest -- Part II: Shakespeare and Popular Culture -- Temptation and Love in Shakespeare's Romances -- The Fantastic in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Part III: Shakespeare and Multiculturalism -- Ambivalence and Mimicry in The Tempest -- The New Woman and the Oriental Tropes as Portrayed in the Iranian Film Tardid Based on Hamlet -- The Bard Goes to the East: Shakespeare in Iran -- Persian Hamlet -- Gender Differences in Teaching Hamlet to Iranian EFL Students.
Summary: This collection of essays offers a panoramic plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer, which is why he is easily appreciated, manipulated, translated, adapted, and interpreted by everyone everywhere. Divided into three parts, this volume deals with a wide range of issues on culture and multiculturalism, and hammers home the idea that the works of Shakespeare can be not only universally understood, but also fully integrated into other cultures.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Shakespeare and Diversity -- The Once and Future Bard -- King Lear -- The Failure of Faith in Hamlet -- "Crushed with a Plot" -- Vision of the Ideal Marriage in Much Ado about Nothing -- Language Functions in The Tempest -- Part II: Shakespeare and Popular Culture -- Temptation and Love in Shakespeare's Romances -- The Fantastic in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Part III: Shakespeare and Multiculturalism -- Ambivalence and Mimicry in The Tempest -- The New Woman and the Oriental Tropes as Portrayed in the Iranian Film Tardid Based on Hamlet -- The Bard Goes to the East: Shakespeare in Iran -- Persian Hamlet -- Gender Differences in Teaching Hamlet to Iranian EFL Students.

This collection of essays offers a panoramic plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer, which is why he is easily appreciated, manipulated, translated, adapted, and interpreted by everyone everywhere. Divided into three parts, this volume deals with a wide range of issues on culture and multiculturalism, and hammers home the idea that the works of Shakespeare can be not only universally understood, but also fully integrated into other cultures.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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