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Title:
"In Search of a Local Habitation: Illustrations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Bengali Prose Retellings of Shakespeare"
Author:
Panja, Shormishtha.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 35–52.
Annotation:

Studies the role and reception of Shakespeare in Bengal by examining illustrations in Haran Chandra Rakshit's Shakespeare and in Shri Bimal's Shakespeare golpo tragedy o comedy ekotre (Shakespeare's Stories, Tragedies, and Comedies Together), two Bengali prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays which predate 1947, the date of Indian Independence.

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"Bewitched: German Translations of Macbeth"
Author:
Kofler, Peter.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 53–72.
Annotation:

Compares German-language translations of Macbeth by Christoph M. Wieland, Gottfried Bürger, Johann C. F. von Schiller, and Dorothea Tieck, focusing on the scenes involving the Weird Sisters, in order to analyze the changes that took place within the German language, German theories of translation, and German theater history in the years between 1766 and 1833.

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Title:
"How Many Children Read Lady Macbeth?: Prose Versions of the Scottish Play from the Lambs to Young Adult Novels"
Author:
Tosi, Laura.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 73–92.
Annotation:

Studying Charles and Mary Lamb's rendition of Macbeth in Tales from Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke's in The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, and Leon Garfield's in Shakespeare Stories, examines the challenges of transmediating the play for young adult audiences and how these challenges have changed and been met for difference generations.

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Title:
"Painted Devils and Samurai: Macbeth in Comics and Manga"
Author:
Myklebost, Svenn-Arve.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 93–112.
Annotation:

In comparing Richard Appignanesi's manga Macbeth to Classics Illustrated: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Von's Macbeth, and John McDonald's Macbeth: The Graphic Novel, argues that the manga adaption of Macbeth allows for innovations not possible under the conventions of the other, more Western, adaptions.

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Title:
"Macbeth as a Tragedy of Consciousness on the Hungarian Stage after 1989"
Author:
Kiss, Attila.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 113–33.
Annotation:

Contends that Gábor Bódy, János Szikora, and György Cserhalmi's Hamlet (q.v.) and Béla Tarr's Macbeth were the determining influence behind Hungarian stage productions of Macbeth after the 1989 fall of the Iron Curtain.

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Title:
"Macbeth: Three Nameless Acts (after Shakespeare) by Salvatore Sciarrino"
Author:
Bishop, Tom.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 135–58.
Annotation:

Discusses Salvatore Sciarrino's opera Macbeth: Tre atti senza nome (da Shakespeare), his adaptation of Macbeth, and the premiere, which was directed in 2002 by Achim Freyer for the Frankfurt Opera.

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Title:
"'Here at the fringe of the forest': Staging Sacred Space in As You Like It"
Author:
Duncan, Helga L..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43, no. 1 (2013): 121–44.
Annotation:

Analyzes Shakespeare's representation of sacred space in As You Like It in light of century-long religious reformation efforts that had disrupted or destroyed many existing spiritual sites in England.

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Title:
"The King's Speech: Shakespeare, Empire, and Global Media"
Author:
Donaldson, Peter S..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespearean International Yearbook 13 (2013): 183–214.
Annotation:

Examines allusions to Shakespeare--especially parallels with Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944)--in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, arguing that the film has a central interest with imperial ideology.

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Title:
"Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans"
Author:
Wilson, Richard.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
English Studies 94, no. 7 (2013): 773–87.
Annotation:

Noting that Michel Foucault's "reputation within Shakespeare studies appears to have sunk without trace," argues that his interpretation of Shakespeare's representation of madness in Madness and Civilization offers "a critique that identifies the dark affinity between the sovereign and the beast in Shakespeare's Ubu-esque king: a monster who reveals not madness 'outside', but 'within the hollow crown.'" English summary, 773. Reprinted in Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson, eds., Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2014), 195-209 (q.v.) and Sophie Chiari, ed., The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern England (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015), 17-29 (q.v.).

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