Shakespeare and Genre (eBook)

ANTHONY GUNERATNEAssociate Professor of Communication at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Kin, Kind, and Shakespeare's Significance to Genre Studies; A.R.Guneratne Shakespeare and Renaissance Genres PART I: ORIGINS AND CONVENTIONS Shakespeare the Metalinguist; D.Crystal Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion; S.Greenblatt 'The Stage Is Hung with Black': Genre and the Trappings of Stagecraft in Shakespearean Tragedy; A.Gurr PART II: SHAKESPEARE'S DEPLOYMENTS OF GENRE Shakespeare's Development of Theatrical Genres: Genre as Adaptation in the Comedies and Histories; D.Bevington The Shakespeare Remix: Romance, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's 'Distinct Kind'; L.Danson PART III: SHAKESPEARE AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF GENRES IN PERFORMANCE Turning Genre on Its Head: Shakespeare's Refashioning of His Sources in Richard III, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; S.J.Lynch Shakespearean Comedy, Tempest-Toss'd: Genre, Social Transformation, and Contemporary Performance; D.Henderson Shakespeare and Contemporary Genres PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC GENRES Comical Tragedies and Other Poly-generic Shakespeares in Contemporary China and Diasporic Chinese Culture; A.Huang King Lear East of Berlin: Tragedy under Socialist Realism and Afterwards; B.Sokolova & A.Shurbanov PART II: SHAKESPEARE-BASED GENRES IN OTHER MEDIA Shakespeare and Film Genre in the Branagh Generation; S.Crowl Genre and Televised Shakespeare: Evolving Forms and Shifting Definitions; T.Howard Shakespeare and Media Allegory; P.S.Donaldson PART III: SHAKESPEARE AS GENRE Shakespeare Among the Philosophers; C.Martindale 'I'll teach you differences': Genre Literacy, Critical Pedagogy, and Screen Shakespeare; D.M.Lanier