Shakespeare and cultural traditions the selected proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991
The Fifth World Shakespeare Congress, held in Tokyo in August 1991, attracted seven hundred Shakespeareans from thirty-five countries. Those contributing to the program included some of the best-known critics and scholars working today in the field of Shakespeare studies. A selection of the many sti...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Fifth World Shakespeare Congress, held in Tokyo in August 1991, attracted seven hundred Shakespeareans from thirty-five countries. Those contributing to the program included some of the best-known critics and scholars working today in the field of Shakespeare studies. A selection of the many stimulating papers given during the congress is presented here in Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions This theme of Shakespeare and cultural traditions was explored from many angles: the cultural forces that helped shape Shakespeare's work in his own time: the assimilation of Shakespeare by other cultures through translation and theatre performances: the creative influence of the plays on other cultural media such as opera and film: and interpretations of Shakespeare from late-twentieth-century viewpoints including the psychoanalytical, the political, the feminist, and the new historical The lectures delivered by the four plenary speakers of the congress are published here: Stephen Greenblatt's groundbreaking paper on witchcraft and Macbeth: Germaine Greer's perceptive analysis of the presence of the proletariat in Shakespeare's plays: Ruth Nevo's intriguing exploration of Freudian perspectives on Hamlet; and Takashi Sasayama's important comparative study of tragedy and emotion in Shakespeare and Chikamatsu |
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| Beschreibung: | 379 S. |
| ISBN: | 0874134625 0-87413-462-5 |