Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare

Download or read book Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare written by Alexa Alice Joubin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This companion to contemporary global performances of Shakespeare guides students from critical methodologies through big pictures of global Shakespeare to case studies that employ these methodologies. Intended for use in the classroom, it employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Featuring chapters on modernist adaptations, global cinema, multilingual productions and Shakespeare in translation, the volume also includes short histories of adaptations of Shakespeare in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Arab world, India, Iran, Afghanistan and the Farsi-speaking diaspora. Finally, thematically organized case studies apply the methodologies outlined to analyse key productions"--