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Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations (Hardcover)
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Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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Four hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his works
continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be
adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture,
including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and
digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation,
Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the
practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of
playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new
'Shakespeares' to emerge, revealing Shakespeare's ongoing impact in
popular culture. Significantly, this collection explores the role
of play in the construction of meaning in Shakespearean
adaptations-adaptations of both the works of Shakespeare, and of
Shakespeare the man-and contributes to the growing scholarly
interest in playfulness both past and present. The chapters in
Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations engage with the diverse
ways that play is used in Shakespearean adaptations on stage,
screen, and page, examining how these adaptations draw out existing
humour in Shakespeare's works, the ways that play is used as a
pedagogical aid to help explain complex language, themes, and
emotions found in Shakespeare's works, and more generally how play
and playfulness can make Shakespeare 'relatable,' 'relevant,' and
entertaining for successive generations of audiences and readers.
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