"World-Wide Shakespeares" brings together an international team of
leading scholars in order to explore the appropriation of
Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world. In
particular, the book explores the ways in which adapters and
directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions
and contexts.
The contributors look in turn at "local" Shakespeares for local,
national and international audiences, covering a range of English
and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural
oppositions between "center" and "periphery," "big-time" and
"small-time" Shakespeares. Their specialist knowledges of local
cultures and traditions make the range of appropriations newly
accessible-and newly fascinating-for world-wide readers. Drawing
upon debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural
production and on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the "cultural field,"
the contributors together demonstrate a significant new approach to
intercultural appropriations of Shakespeare.
Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and
politics of appropriation, "World-Wide Shakespeares "represents a
valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of
Shakespeare in film and performance, within and beyond Anglophone
cultural centers.
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