Skip to main content
World Shakespeare Bibliography home

138,701 entries in:

Title:
"Adaptations of Hamlet in Different Cultural Contexts: Globalisation, Postmodernism, and Altermodernism"
Author:
Partovi Tazeh Kand, Parviz.
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Huddersfield, Ph.D., 2013.
Annotation:

Considers intertextuality and globalization in 7 adaptations of Hamlet: Mamud Sabahi's Hamlet Narrates Hamlet, Semih Celenk's Hamlet in Colour in Turkish, Lyudmila S. Petrushevskaya's Hamlet, Act Null, Sulayman Al-Bassam's The Al-Hamlet Summit (published in The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy. q.v.), Atila Pesyani's Gajari Coffee, Mostafa Rahimi's Hamlet, and Akbar Radi's Hamlet with Season Salad.

View Full Entry
Title:
"The Tempest: 'Hugh, and be mute': Silences in The Tempest"
Author:
Neill, Michael.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Power, Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613, 88–107.
Annotation:

Examines Shakespeare's extensive exploitation of "the theatrical effectiveness of silence" in Tempest focusing on how "silences form part of a complex and self-conscious arrangement of acoustic effects unparalleled in early modern theatre."

View Full Entry
Title:
"Shakespearean Avatars: Modern African and South-East Asian Adaptations"
Author:
Bale, Rebekah R..
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
SUNY--Albany, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

Analyzes African and Asian adaptations of Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet from the 1960s to the 1990s. Concludes that "these adaptations form two major responses to the challenges surrounding the colonial/post-colonial period": a "'writing back' to the colonial power" and "an aesthetic response focusing on language and aiming to address the political and cultural landscape after the departure of the colonial power."

View Full Entry
Title:
"Chastity on the Early Modern Stage, 1611-1649"
Author:
Lander Johnson, Bonnie.
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Oxford, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

"Focusing on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. . . describes the four tropes of chastity and their place in tragicomic experience." Argues that "the abrupt end of the cult of chastity and tragicomedy. . . must also be attributed to the efforts of pro-Parliamentary and Puritan writers who. . . sought to claim the tropes of chastity for their own rhetoric and cause." Published as Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (q.v.).

View Full Entry
Title:
"'Piteous overthrows': Pity and Identity in Early Modern Literature"
Author:
Johnson, Toria Anne.
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
St. Andrews, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

"Explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled" in Tempest. "Contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also. . . a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness."

View Full Entry