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Adaptation and Nation
Theatrical Contexts for Contemporary English and Irish Drama
Inbunden, 2017
949 kr
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This book focuses on modern theatrical adaptations that rework classic plays in new British and Irish settings. It explores these shifted national contexts and examines what they might reveal about the political and cultural climate of the new setting. In examining the modern setting alongside the …
Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama
'Upstart Crows'
Inbunden, 2017
1074 kr
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This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of …
Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage
Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre
Inbunden, 2017
1130 kr
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This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and Elementary, and films like Mr …
Radical Revival as Adaptation
Theatre, Politics, Society
Inbunden, 2017
1355 kr
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This book examines the radical reinterpretation of precursor texts and prompts as an innovative form of adaptation for the stage. In this context, stage adaptations are defined as active and risk-taking interventions on pre-existing sources, dramatic and otherwise, that can range from …
Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre
Av Kara Reilly
Inbunden, 2017
1467 kr
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This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the …
Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre
Av Kara Reilly
Häftad, 2018
1018 kr
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This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the …
Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy
The Aesthetic Signature at Work
Av Melissa Poll
Häftad, 2019
1355 kr
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This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage’s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage’s technique is defined here as ‘scenographic dramaturgy’, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural …
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art
Process and Practice
Av Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the discourse of adaptation studies, moving away from the hypotheses that used to haunt it, such as …
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art
Process and Practice
Av Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1560 kr
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This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the discourse of adaptation studies, moving away from the hypotheses that used to haunt it, such as …
Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence
The Author Dies Hard
Inbunden, 2020
1083 kr
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This book takes Roland Barthes’s famous proclamation of ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance. By offering a new understanding of ‘the author’ as neither a source of unquestioned authority …
Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence
The Author Dies Hard
Häftad, 2021
1083 kr
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This book takes Roland Barthes’s famous proclamation of ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance. By offering a new understanding of ‘the author’ as neither a source of unquestioned authority …
Re-performance, Mourning and Death
Specters of the Past
Av Sarah Julius
Inbunden, 2021
1355 kr
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This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of …
Re-performance, Mourning and Death
Specters of the Past
Av Sarah Julius
Häftad, 2022
1355 kr
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This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of …
Hamlet after Deconstruction
Inbunden, 2022
1322 kr
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Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstruction, this book introduces a new interpretative paradigm. …
Hamlet after Deconstruction
Häftad, 2023
1322 kr
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Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstruction, this book introduces a new interpretative paradigm. …
Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen
Inbunden, 2024
1680 kr
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Bosnian Literature on Stage and Screen aims to reconcile theoretical approaches with theatrical and cinematic practices by examining two adaptations based on works by the Bosnian author Meša Selimović. The book is informed by scholarship in film and theatre adaptation theories, and is grounded in a …
Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen
Häftad, 2025
1680 kr
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Bosnian Literature on Stage and Screen aims to reconcile theoretical approaches with theatrical and cinematic practices by examining two adaptations based on works by the Bosnian author Meša Selimović. The book is informed by scholarship in film and theatre adaptation theories, and is grounded in a …
Adapting the Novel for the Stage
Translation in Intermedial Circulation
Inbunden, 2025
1460 kr
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Adapting the Novel for the Stage: Translation in Intermedial Circulation proposes an integrative framework for understanding novel to stage adaptations. Through a translational lens, it introduces a twofold model that examines creative dynamics through intersemiotic translation and sociocultural …
Contemporary Fantasy on Stage
From His Dark Materials to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Av Danica Stojanovic-Schaffrath
Inbunden, 2026
1680 kr
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Fantasy is one of the most beloved genres of fiction that has only relatively recently entered academia in all its magical glory. And yet, one of its developing branches, fantasy theatre, has to date not been addressed in detail in scholarly circles, despite the irrefutable popularity of plays like …
Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy
The Aesthetic Signature at Work
Av Melissa Poll
Inbunden, 2018
1355 kr
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This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage’s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage’s technique is defined here as ‘scenographic dramaturgy’, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural …
