Performing Shakespearean Appropriations: Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet (Shakespeare and the Stage)

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword: “Appropriation and Collaboration” Introduction Notes Bibliography Part I: Past Chapter 1: What’s in a Game?: Handy-Dandy, War, and Foreign Relations in King Lear Child’s Play A Show of Hands A Play That Stops at Nothing The Handy-Dandy of Britain’s Foreign Affairs Gaming the Audience Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: Strawberry Hill: The House that Hamlet Built Shakespeare’s Protégé: A Head Filled with Gothic Story Horace Reads Hamlet Another Gertrude: Horace Walpole’s Family Romance Finding Shelter in Shakespeare: The Keys to the Beauclerc Closet Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: What’s Past Is Prologue: Shakespeare the Romantic Notes Bibliography Part II: Present Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s Bust and the 1960s Batman TV Show Shakespeare and Golden Age Batman Campy Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Bust as Commodity Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: On the Shakespeare Trail Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: Shakespeare in the Dorm: The Rhetoric of Character in YouTube Shakespeare Jules and Monty Nothing Much to Do KATE MINOLA Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Why Are Shakespeare’s Characters So “Relatable”? On Shakespeare, Character, and Shakespeare’s Characters How Do Actual People Actually Read Shakespeare’s Characters? Notes Bibliography Part III: Future Chapter 8: Levinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The Merchant of Venice Levinas, Memory, and Productions of Merchant Jessica’s Prayers Jonathan Miller, 1970–1971 Trevor Nunn, 1999–2000 Jonathan Munby, 2015 Jessica’s Ring: Radford (2004) Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare Gendered Pronouns in Translation: Twelfth Night and Throne of Blood A Transgender Ophelia A Genealogy of Transgender Theory Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: Quoting Machines: Shakespearean Things in and Beyond HBO’s Westworld Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: On Character, Character Criticism, and The King is Alive: For Christy Desmet Notes Bibliography Afterword Notes Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors "This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare's afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media"-- Provided by publisher