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Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe de Louise Geddes

Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage

Autor Louise Geddes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 apr 2017
Appropriating Shakespeare argues that the vibrant history of Pyramus and Thisbe as an independent text affirms the place of artist as both consumer and producer of Shakespeare. The playlet’s four-century history is one that identifies Shakespeare’s value as a transformative agent of aesthetic inquiry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683930440
ISBN-10: 1683930444
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 160 x 238 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Seria The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe argues that the vibrant, transformative history of Shakespeare's play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream across four centuries allows us to see the way in which Shakespeare is used to both create and critique emergent cultural trends. Because of its careful distinction between "good" and "bad" art, Pyramus and Thisbe's playful meditation on the foolishness of over-reaching theatrical ambition is repeatedly appropriated by artists seeking to parody contemporary aesthetics, resulting in an ongoing assessment of Shakespeare's value to the time. Beginning with the play's own creation as an appropriation of Ovid, designed to keep the rowdy clown in check, Appropriating Shakespeare is a wide-ranging study that charts Pyramus and Thisbe's own metamorphosis through opera, novel, television, and, of course, theatre. This unique history illustrates Pyramus and Thisbe's ability to attract like-minded, experimental, genre-bending artists who use the text as a means of exploring the value of their own individual craft. Ultimately, what this history reveals is that, in excerpt, Pyramus and Thisbe affirms the place of artist as both consumer and producer of Shakespeare.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "You may do it extempore"
1 Performance as Appropriation: Bottom, Celebrity, and the Early Modern Clown
2 "The Taste of the Present Times": Challenging Parody in the Eighteenth Century
3 "I have a passion for good prose": Transmedial Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
4 "Know that I, one Ringo the Drummer Am": Mass Media and the Authenticity of Subculture
5 As We Like It: Transcultural Shakespeares in the Twenty-first Century
Epilogue: "It must be your imagination, then"
Bibliography
Index
About the Author