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From narrative to film and more recently You Tube and Second Life, Shakespeare – here broadly understood as a corpus of texts, their textual and cultural remains and an open cultural signifier – has been adapted or appropriated on various media platforms. This module explores recent adaptations, citations and iterations of selected Shakespearean texts in various media (such as drama, narrative, film and Internet). In particular, the module focuses on how new media and pop culture appropriations of Shakespeare address the categories of ‘race’ and sexuality. How important is medium specificity to the redetermination of race and sexuality as these are constructed and mapped in Shakespearean texts? To what extent do new media iterations of engage with Shakespeare’s role in histories of empire? Further, is appropriation itself an adequate model for analyzing Shakespearean material in modern media and in a post-modern context? How does appropriation as a model address the many transformations, recuperations and erosions of the cultural authority of Shakespeare's text in post-modern media? In addressing these and related questions, the module examines the extent to which Shakespeare continues to function as a powerful and sometimes normative agent in discourses of sexuality and ‘race’.
Indicative Texts:
Shakespeare, Sonnets; Othello; The Tempest. And selected You Tube uploads.
Cesaire, Aime. A Tempest (1969).
Taymor, Julia. Dir. The Tempest (2010).
Vogel, Paula. Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief (1987)
Warner, Marina. Indigo, or the mapping of waters. London: Vintage, 1992.
Relevant Critical Materials:
Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare and Modern Culture. New York: Pantheon, 2008.
Kidnie, Margaret. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation. London: Routledge, 2009.
Lanier, Douglas. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lehmann, Courtney, Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet. London: Routledge, 2001.
Bryan Reynolds. Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003.
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