Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996

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University of Delaware Press, 1998 - 427 стор.
This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.

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South Africa in Othello
23
Shakespeare in Iceland
41
Shakespeares Lesser Plays in the Twentieth Century
60
Notes on the Elizabethan AvantGarde
75
The Shakespeare Festival A Mans Play and New Women
85
Myriadminded Men
103
Shakespeare Meets Film Noir
113
Conflicting Theories in Collaborative Praxis
125
Hypertext as Editorial Horizon
248
Feeling Bodies
258
Shakespeares Mythology in the Twentieth Century
280
Shakespeares Dogs
294
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets
314
Visions and Revisions
336
Reading Hamlet in Japan
350
Why Should We Call Her Whore? Bianca in Othello
364

East European Uses of Shakespeares Great
137
Sonneteering Lovers Rock and Blues
148
Shakespeare and the Musical
157
The Larrikin Element
168
Performance Theory Postcolonial Discourse and the Filming of A Midsummer Nights Dream in Angela Carters Wise Children
183
Shakespeare Branagh and the Movies
194
Finding a Way Out
215
The Saturation of the Shakespearean Text
231
Rereading Shakespeares Timon of Athens at the fin de siecle
378
Gender Class and Race in Japanese Translations of Shakespeare
390
Complete List of Papers from the Program of the Congress
403
Seminars Workshops Forums Other Sessions and Their Leaders
407
Notes on Contributors
410
Index
415
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Сторінка 28 - I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best Conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown, Oth.
Сторінка 28 - Ay, there's the point :' — as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends, — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Сторінка 37 - He did, from first to last; why dost thou ask ? lago. But for a satisfaction of my thought ; No further harm. Othello. Why of thy thought, lago ? lago.
Сторінка 382 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...
Сторінка 153 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear...
Сторінка 36 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Сторінка 103 - The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Сторінка 154 - If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering, Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing; Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee :

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