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Reinventing the Renaissance Also by Sarah Annes Brown A FAMILIAR COMPOUND GHOST: Allusion and the Uncanny DEVOTED SISTERS: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature OVID: Myth and Metamorphosis THE METAMORPHOSIS OF OVID: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes TRAGEDY IN TRANSITION Also by Robert I. Lublin COSTUMING THE SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture Reinventing the Renaissance Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance Edited by Sarah Annes Brown Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Robert I. Lublin Chair of Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and Lynsey McCulloch Graduate Teaching Assistant, Coventry University, UK Palgrave macmillan Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Sarah Annes Brown, Robert I. 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A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction 1 Sarah Annes Brown, Robert I. Lublin and Lynsey McCulloch Part I Popular Culture 2 Hamlet: Looking Before and After: Why So Many Prequels and Sequels? 17 Ann Thompson 3 Educating for Pleasure: The Textual Relations of She’s the Man 32 Reina Green 4 ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’: Genre-Shift from Shakespeare to the Screen 47 Kinga Földváry 5 Cinematizing Shakespeare 63 Charles Marowitz Part II Criticism and Creativity 6 Circulating through ‘languages and tales’: Stephen Greenblatt’s Cardenio 77 Theodora Papadopoulou 7 Peter Ackroyd’s Shakespeare the Biography and Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World, or Facts and Fiction about William Shakespeare 92 Urszula Kizelbach 8 The Weird Sisters (from The Life and Death of the Brothers Macbeth) 104 Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey 9 ‘You kiss like in a movie’: A Contemporary Translation/Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet 122 Pietro Deandrea v vi Contents Part III National Responses 10 At the Threshold – Remembrance and Topicality in Recent Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany 143 Zeno Ackermann 11 Kabuki Shakespeare: The NINAGAWA Twelfth Night 162 Seiji Furuya 12 ‘Downright unsaxogrammatical’? – Do Postcolonial Adaptations Contest, or Reinforce Shakespeare’s Canonical Status? 174 Jenni Ramone 13 ‘My dream was lengthened after life’: Ghosts in Michael Boyd’s History Cycle 193 Kate Wilkinson Part IV Visualizing Performance 14 ‘Four legs and two voices’: An Interview with Édouard Lekston 207 Pascale Drouet 15 Shakespearean Visual Semiotics and the Silver Screen 242 Robert I. Lublin 16 ‘Here’s that shall make you dance’: Movement and Meaning in Bern:Ballett’s Julia und Romeo 255 Lynsey McCulloch Part V Non-Shakespearean Drama 17 The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby’s Quietus 271 Rowland Wymer 18 The Act of Murder: Renaissance Tragedy and the Detective Novel 286 Esme Miskimmin 19 Fishing at the Swan: Swan Theatre Plays and the Shaping of an Interpretive Community 301 Laura Grace Godwin Select Bibliography 318 Index 320 List of Figures 1 Édouard Lekston, Mon ami William/My Friend William 211 2 Édouard Lekston, Mon ami William/My Friend William 212 3 Édouard Lekston, Mon ami William/My Friend William 213 4 Édouard Lekston, Mon ami William/My Friend William 214 5 Édouard Lekston, Mon ami William/My Friend William 215 6 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 217 7 Édouard Lekston, The Swing (Richard II) 219 8 Édouard Lekston, The Swing (Richard II) 220 9 Édouard Lekston, The Swing (Richard II) 221 10 Édouard Lekston, The Swing (Richard II) 222 11 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 224 12 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 224 13 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 225 14 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 226 15 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 226 16 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 227 17 Édouard Lekston, Une île pleine de bruits/An Isle Full of Noises 228 18 Édouard Lekston, Une île pleine de bruits/An Isle Full of Noises 230 19 Édouard Lekston, Une île pleine de bruits/An Isle Full of Noises 231 20 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 233 21 Édouard Lekston, Family Gathering 234 22 Édouard Lekston, Une île pleine de bruits/An Isle Full of Noises 235 vii Acknowledgements We would like to thank all of the participants of the Scaena 2008 confer- ence. A discussion of modern adaptations and performances of Shakespeare and his contemporaries illuminates the world in which we live, and the innovation and quality of the research presented at the conference moti- vated the publication of this volume. Our thanks are also due to Anglia Ruskin University for hosting and supporting the event. Sarah Annes Brown would like to thank all the students, colleagues, and speakers who helped make Scaena 2008 such a successful and enjoyable event, and all the contributors to the volume for their patience during the editing process. Robert I. Lublin would like to thank Sarah and Lynsey for inviting him to join them on this project. It has been a pleasure to have the chance to work with you! I would also like to thank the University of Massachusetts Boston and particularly my department, Performing Arts, for providing me with an exciting place to work, teach, and learn. Final thanks are owed to my wife Elina Cymerman for her patience while I spent weekends writing and editing, and my whole family for their support throughout my career and, indeed, my life. Lynsey McCulloch thanks her fellow editors for their great ideas, hard work, and good humour. Thanks, too, go to Cathy Marston for supplying me with a film version of her ballet, Julia und Romeo, and for humouring my attempt to unpack her brilliant work. I’m also grateful to colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University and Coventry University for their support and I’d like to dedicate this – my first full-length book – to my family and to Rob Tovey. They’ve shown infinite patience! viii Notes on Contributors Zeno Ackermann is a Researcher and Lecturer in English Studies at Frankfurt’s Goethe University. He has published on poetics and ideol- ogy in nineteenth-century American literature, the remembrance of the National Socialist past and the Holocaust in Germany, and the reception of Shakespeare in twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Currently, he works on the interrelationships between the (British) novel and the mass media. Sarah Annes Brown is Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. Her publications include The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999), Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature (2003) and A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny (2012). Pietro Deandrea is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy. He has published works on postcolonial literature (‘Fertile Crossings: Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature’, 2002) and is a literary translator. He has recently edited ‘The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain’. Pascale Drouet is Professor at the University of Poitiers, France. She is the author of two monographs: Le vagabond dans l’Angleterre de Shakespeare, ou l’art de contrefaire à la ville et à la scène (2003) and Mise au ban et abus de pouvoir. Essai sur trois pièces tragiques de Shakespeare (2012). She has edited Shakespeare au XXème siècle: Mises en scène, mises en perspective de Richard II (2007), The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare (2009) and co-edited ‘The True Blank of Thine Eye’: Approches critiques de King Lear (2008) and Le ban- nissement et l’exil en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (2010). She is the editor of the online journal, Les Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir (http://shakespeare. edel.univ-poitiers.fr). Ewan Fernie is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. He is General Editor (with Simon Palfrey) of the Shakespeare Now! series. His latest book is The Demonic: Literature and Experience. Kinga Földváry is a senior lecturer in the Institute of English and American Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. Her main research interests include William Harrison’s Description of Britain, Shakespearean tragedy, problems of genre in film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, together with twentieth- and twenty-first-century British literature.