"Negotiating Identity in the Face of the Canon: Murray Carlin and Derek Walcott's Use of Metadrama in Shakespeare Adaptations"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbp32/
Author:
	Pak, Sunghee.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Neohelicon 51, no. 2 (2024): 531–50.
Annotation:
	Compares postcolonial identity in two Shakespeare adaptations, arguing that in Not Now Sweet Desdemona (q.v.) Murray Carlin offers an "endorsement of Shakespeare's universal genius," whereas by contrast, in A Branch of the Blue Nile (q.v.), Derek Walcott "promotes the acceptance of hybridity" and "advocates for an active adaptation based on local reality." English summary, 531.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Carlin, Not Now, Sweet Desdemona: A Duologue for Black and White within the Realm of Shakespeare's Othello
	Warner, A Branch of the Blue Nile
Persons:
	Walcott, Derek; Carlin, Murray
Tags:
	Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, Shakespeare in Literature
WSB Update:
	Spring 2026
WSB Record Number:
	bbbp32