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Page 208 Hodgdon, Barbara (1998) The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Freewheeling account of Shakespeare’s cultural status at the millennium; strong on film versions of the plays. Howard, Jean E. and O’Connor, Marion F. (1987) (eds) Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, New York: Methuen. Aggressively challenges traditional constructions of Shakespeare in criticism from a series of contemporary critical positions. Kamps, Ivo (1991) (ed.) Shakespeare Left and Right, New York: Routledge. Part I traces a spirited exchange between “right” (traditional or conservative) and “left” (progressive or revisionist) schools of critical thought on Shakespeare. Part II deals with ideological issues in criticism and in the plays. Kott, Jan (1964) Shakespeare Our Contemporary, trans. Boleslaw Taborski, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. Argues for the timelessness of Shakespeare by finding archetypal analogues for twentieth-century events in the plays. Marsden, Jean I. (1991) (ed.) The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth, New York: St. Martin’s. Focuses on how post-Renaissance generations imprint their own ideology on the plays and on the myth of Shakespeare. —— (1995) The Re-imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Considers the implications of widespread adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on why adaptation became popular and why it stopped. Novy, Marianne (1990) (ed.) Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare: On the Responses of Dickinson, Woolf, Rich, H.D., George Eliot, and Others, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Essays on women writers’ identification with Shakespeare’s characters and with Shakespeare himself. —— (1993) (ed.) Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Essays that challenge mainstream conceptions of Shakespeare through the lens of race and gender. ——(1999) (ed.) Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance, New York: St. Martin’s. Further studies in women’s responses to Shakespeare in the twentieth century, across genres and in performance. Taylor, Gary (1989) Reinventing Shakespeare, New York: Oxford University Press. Traces the rise of Shakespeare to literary and cultural eminence |
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