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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars. Each chapter also looks anew at a specific Shakespeare play from the perspective of a prevailing set of theories and metaphors. Having identified the key critics responsible for developing these metaphors and for framing the discussion in this way, Iyengar moves on to analyze afresh the implications of these critical frames for adaptation studies as a whole and for particular Shakespeare plays. Focusing each chapter around a different play, the book contrasts comic, tragic, and tragicomic modes in Shakespeare''s oeuvre and within the major genres of adaptation (e.g., film, stage-production, novel
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Sources Used
Introduction: Much Ado About Adaptation What or Whom are we Adapting? Metaphors We Adapt By Adaptation as Annotation in Much Ado
1. Plants, Off-shoots, Genes: Rhizomes Plants Off-shoots Genes Rhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests
2. Art, Property, Theft: Appropriation Art Property Theft Appropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona)
3. Fidelity, Families, Ethics: Derivatives Fidelity Families: Lear among the Editors Ethics and Editing Derivatives: Lear’s Progeny
4. Transfer, Remediation, Broadcast: Intermedia Transfer Remediation Broadcast and Podcast Intermedia: Audio Hamlets
5. Memes, Networks, Fans: Transformations Memes Networks Fans Transformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night
6. Relocation, Translation, Hybridization: Tradaptation Relocation Translation Hybridization Tradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles
7. Accidents, Remains, Traces: Accommodations Accidents Remains Traces Accommodations: Romeo and Juliet Glossary of Selected Terms,
Philip Gilreath with Sujata Iyengar Notes References Index
