AFRICAN Theatre: Shakespeare in & out of Africa / volume editor, Jane Plastow ; reviews editor, Martin Banham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; 12.Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, [2013]Description: xiv, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781847010803 (pbk.)
  • 1847010806 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Shakespeare in and out of Africa
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Shakespeare in and out of Africa.DDC classification:
  • 792.096 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3109.A35 S53 2013
Contents:
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!
Summary: 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.
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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.

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