Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9356404437 ISBN 13: 9789356404434

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India (UK), 2024

Synopsis

Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies. The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading.
The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia – Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier’s concept of the ‘rhizomatic’ approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often ‘unfaithfully’ in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.

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About the Author

Rita Banerjee is currently affiliated to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India as a researcher.
Yilin Chen is Professor in the Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, and Director of the Global Foreign Language Education Program in Providence University (Taiwan).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India (UK)
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9356404437
• ISBN 13: 9789356404434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Rita Banerjee, Yilin Chen