Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Shakespearean Rhizomatics: Adaptation, Ethics, Value....Pages 21-40
Recognizing Shakespeare, Rethinking Fidelity: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Appropriation....Pages 41-57
Ethics and the Undead: Reading Shakespearean (Mis)appropriation in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula ....Pages 59-72
Adaptation Revoked: Knowledge, Ethics, and Trauma in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres ....Pages 73-87
Double Jeopardy: Shakespeare and Prison Theater....Pages 89-105
Theater Director as Unelected Representative: Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Arab Shakespeare Trilogy....Pages 107-129
A “Whirl of Aesthetic Terminology”: Swinburne, Shakespeare, and Ethical Criticism....Pages 131-143
“Raw-Savage” Othello: The First-Staged Japanese Adaptation of Othello (1903) and Japanese Colonialism....Pages 145-159
The Bard in Bollywood: The Fraternal Nation and Shakespearean Adaptation in Hindi Cinema....Pages 161-177
Multilingual Ethics in Henry V and Henry VIII ....Pages 179-192
In Other Words: Global Shakespearean Transformations....Pages 193-209
Afterword....Pages 211-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-274