AFRICAN Theatre: Shakespeare in & out of Africa /

AFRICAN Theatre: Shakespeare in & out of Africa / Shakespeare in and out of Africa volume editor, Jane Plastow ; reviews editor, Martin Banham. - xiv, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - African theatre ; 12 . - African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; 12. .

Includes the playscript Wẹ̀sóo, Hamlet! or The Resurrection of Hamlet.

Includes bibliographical references.

Shakespeare, Africa & the Globe Olympiad -- The two gentlemen of Zimbabwe & their diaspora audience at Shakespeare's Globe -- Shakespeare's African nostos : township nostalgia & South African performance at sea -- Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn, The winter's tales : Shakespeare meets Yoruba gods -- Performing the nation at the London Globe : notes on a South Sudanese Cymbeline : 'we will be like other people in other places' -- African Shakespeares : a discussion -- 'Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la' : the brave new world of Dev Virahsawmy -- Crioulo Shakespeareno & the Creolising of King Lear -- Playscript : Wẹ̀sóo, Hamlet!

A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and the postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of Western cultural icons in contemporary postcolonial cultures.

9781847010803 (pbk.) 1847010806 (pbk.)

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016499893 Uk


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history--Africa.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Appreciation--Africa.


Theater--Production and direction--Africa.

PR3109.A35 / S53 2013

792.096