Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

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Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation is written by Geoffrey Way and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399524941 (ISBN 10) and 9781399524940 (ISBN 13).

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him.