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Title:
"Experiencing Digital Shakespeares in the Global South"
Author:
Sen, Amrita.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Sen, Digital Shakespeares from the Global South, 1–15.
Annotation:

Assesses geo-politics and economics of Global South and its effects on understanding Shakespeare adaptations in digital age. Argues that to "speak of digital Shakespeares in the Global South is to address questions of digital divide." English summary, online. 

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Title:
"Werner Habicht (29 January 1930 – 5 November 2022)"
Author:
Jansohn, Christa.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 25, no. 40 (2022): 1–2.
Annotation:

Obituary of Werner Habicht, Professor emeritus of English at University of Würzburg, President of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (West) (1976-1987), editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch (West) (1980-1995), honorary Vice-President of the International Shakespeare Association, and co-editor of Literatur Brockhaus (2nd edition, 1995).

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Title:
Die Szene des Wunderbaren: Die Shakespeare-Elfen im Wechselspiel von Musik und Maschine [The Scene of the Wonderful: The Shakespeare Elves in the Interplay of Music and Machine]
Author:
Taubert, T. Sofie.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2018
Publication Information:
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2018. x + 310 pp.
Annotation:

Explores theatrical "elf scenes" including spirits and fairies in musical adaptations of Tempest and Midsummer Night's Dream. Focuses specifically on intersection of wonder and music as depicted in elf scenes and how such intersections complicate familiar aesthetic forms. 

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Title:
Talawa Theatre Company: A Theatrical History and The Brewster Era
Author:
Johnson, David Vivian.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
London, New York, and Oxford: Methuen Drama, 2021. xii + 259 pp.
Annotation:

Explores history and theatrical legacy of Talawa Theatre Company, Black British theater company producing reinterpretations of classic dramatic works. Focuses specifically on Yvonne Brewster's work with Talawa, including her direction of Antony and Cleopatra (1991), King Lear (1994), and Othello (1997), q.v. all.  

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Title:
Troilus and Cressida
Director:
Panourgia, Maria.
Type:
Production
Year:
2022
Additional:

Translated into Greek by Nikos Hatzopoulos. Eri Kyrgia, dramaturg. Antonia Tsiller, assistant director. Sets by Myrto Lamprou, costumes by Ioanna Tsami, lighting by Lefteris Pavlopoulos, and music by Blaine Reininger.

Venue:

Produced by the National Theatre of Greece (https://www.n-t.gr) at Rex Theatre, Stage "Eleni Papadaki," Athens, beginning 11 March 2022.

Annotation:

With Evdoxia Androulidaki (Priam/Agamemnon), Stella Vogiatzaki (Helen/Cassandra), Babis Galiatsatos (Ulysses), Lambros Grammatikos (Troilus), Thanasis Zeritas (Achilles), Giannis Klinis (Pandarus), Giorgos Kritharas (Ajax), Aris Ninikas (Diomedes), Theano Metaxa (Aeneas/Cassandra), Ilias Moulas (Thersites), Manos Petrakis (Patroclus/Paris), Konstantinos Plemmenos (Hector/Calchas), and Nancy Sideri (Cressida/Cassandra).

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Title:
The Motive and the Cue
Director:
Mendes, Sam.
Type:
Production
Year:
2023
Additional:

By Jack Thorne. Sets by Es Devlin, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, lighting by Jon Clark, and music by Benjamin Kwasi Burrell.

Venue:

Produced by the National Theatre (https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk) with Neal Street Productions (https://www.nealstreetproductions.com) at the Littleton Theatre, London, beginning 20 April 2023.

Annotation:

John Gielgud (q.v.) directs Richard Burton in Hamlet (1964). With Allan Corduner (Hume Cronyn), Ryal Ellsworth (George Voskovec), Johnny Flynn (Richard Burton), Mark Gatiss (Sir John Gielgud), Aysha Kala (Jessica Levy), Elizabeth Taylor (Tuppence Middleton), Luke Norris (William Redfield), Michael Walters (Robert Milli), and Laurence Ubong Williams (Hugh McHaffie).

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Title:
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics
Author:
Fumerton, Patricia.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. x + 470 pp.
Annotation:

Explores production and social network of early modern English broadside ballads. Features chapter on Winter's Tale, considering theatricality of broadside ballads. Includes numerous images of broadside ballads and offers online resource featuring audio files of ballad music. 

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