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The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

Geddes, Louise
Santos, Kathryn Vomero
Way, Geoffrey

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1399524925
ISBN13: 9781399524926
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him.

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