Alexa Huang & Elizabeth Rivlin 
Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation [PDF ebook] 

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Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.

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Table of Content

Introduction; Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin 1. Shakespearean Rhizomatics: Adaptation, Ethics, Value; Doug Lanier 2. Recognizing Shakespeare, Rethinking Fidelity: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Appropriation; Christy Desmet 3. Ethics and the Undead: Reading Shakespearean (Mis)appropriation in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula; Adrian Streete 4. Adaptation Revoked: Knowledge, Ethics, and Trauma in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres; Elizabeth Rivlin 5. Double Jeopardy: Shakespeare and Prison Theater; Courtney Lehmann 6. Theatre Director as Unelected Representative: Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Arab Shakespeare Trilogy; Margaret Litvin 7. A ‘whirl of aesthetic terminology’: Swinburne, Shakespeare, and Ethical Criticism; Robert Sawyer 8. ‘Raw-Savage’ Othello: The First Staged Japanese Adaptation of Othello (1903) and Japanese Colonialism; Yukari Yoshihara 9. The Bard in Bollywood: The Fraternal Nation and Shakespearean Adaptation in Hindi Cinema; Gitanjali Shahani and Brinda Charry 10. Multilingual Ethics in Henry V and Henry VIII; Ema Vyroubalova 11. In Other Words: Global Shakespearean Transformations; Sheila T. Cavanagh Afterword: ‘State of Exception’: Forgetting Hamlet; Thomas Cartelli Appendix: For the Record: Interview with Sulayman Al-Bassam; Margaret Litvin

About the author

Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College, USA Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USA Brinda Charry, Keene State College, USA Christy Desmet, University of Georgia, USA Douglas M. Lanier, University of New Hampshire, USA Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, USA Margaret Litvin, Boston University, USA Adrian Streete, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University, USA Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University, USA Ema Vyroubalová, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 281 ● ISBN 9781137375773 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3447255 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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