Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation /

Main Author: Pittman, L. Monique, 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
Series:Studies in Shakespeare, v. 19
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516989
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : gestures that authorize
  • Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it
  • The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem
  • Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa.
  • Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man
  • The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold
  • Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater
  • It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.