Shakespeare in the world : cross-cultural adaptation in Europe and colonial India, 1850-1900 / Suddhaseel Sen.
Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, opera...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Preliminary Notes
- Introduction
- Shakespeare's Reception in Non-Anglophone Cultures: Analytical Paradigms
- Theorising Shakespeare Reception Relationally
- Shakespeare and "Nationalist Cosmopolitanism"
- Adaptation Theory and Cross-Cultural Receptions of Shakespeare
- The Case Studies: Patterns and Interconnections
- Part 1
- 1 Shakespeare Reception in France: Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet and Its Intertexts
- Introduction.
- Shakespeare's Hamlet: Texts and Performances up to the Nineteenth Century
- Hamlet in France: From Ducis to Dumas and Meurice
- Thomas's Hamlet as Opéra Lyrique
- The Operatic Ophélie
- The Afterlife of Thomas's Hamlet
- 2 Nationalism and Aesthetic Self-Fashioning: Giuseppe Verdi's Otello
- Introduction
- Jealousy and Vengeance in Othello and Otello (i): Racial Discourses
- Jealousy and Vengeance in Othello and Otello (ii): Religious Discourses
- Jealousy and Vengeance in Othello and Otello (iii): The Pressures of Patriarchy.
- Verdi's Musical Choices and the Subversion of Racial Stereotypes regarding Jealousy
- Conclusion
- Part 2
- 3 Challenging the Civilising Mission: Responses to The Tempest by Bankimchandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore
- Introduction
- Bankim and Bengali Literature After 1857
- Bankim's Life and Literary Career
- Kapālakunḍalā: Plot and Intertexts
- The Tempest, Kapālakunḍalā, and Women in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (i): A Historical Perspective
- The Tempest, Kapālakunḍalā, and Women in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (ii): A Symbolic Perspective.
- Bankim, Tagore, and the Reception History of The Tempest
- 4 Two Contrasting Cases of Transculturation of Shakespeare From Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar's Bhrāntivilās and Girishchandra Ghosh's Macbeth
- Introduction
- Part I: Vidyasagar's Bhrāntivilās
- Life and Times of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
- Rereading The Comedy of Errors: Bhrāntivilās and Its Intertexts
- Bhrāntivilās and Feminist Readings of Errors
- Part II: Girishchandra Ghosh's Macbeth
- The Life and Career of Girishchandra Ghosh
- Girishchandra Ghosh's Macbeth: A Case of Colonial Mimicry?
- Conclusion.
- Conclusion
- Adaptation Studies: Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches
- Nationalist Cosmopolitanism and Post-Colonial Mimicry
- Cross-Cultural Shakespeare and New Analytical Frameworks
- Appendix 1 "Imitation"
- Appendix 2 "Śakuntalā, Miranda, and Desdemona"
- References
- Index.