Banham / Gibbs / Osofisan African Theatre 12: Shakespeare in and out of Africa

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78204-195-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 208 Seiten

Reihe: African Theatre

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banham, Martin

Gibbs, James

Osofisan, Femi

Plastow, Jane

Weitere Mitwirkende

Plastow, Jane

Osofisan, Femi

Woods, Penelope

Gordon, Colette

Adeyemi, Sola

Matzke, Christine

Walling, Michael

Beesondial, Ashish

Ferreira, Eunice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Introduction - Jane Plastow
Shakespeare, Africa & the Globe Olympiad - Femi Osofisan
The Two Gentlemen of Zimbabwe & their Diaspora audience at Shakespeare's Globe - Penelope Woods
Shakespeare's African nostos: township nostalgia & South African performance at sea - Colette Gordon
Itan Oginintin - The Winter's Tale: Shakespeare meets Yoruba Gods - Sola Adeyemi
Performing the nation at the London Globe - notes on a South Sudanese Cymbeline - Christine Matzke
African Shakespeares: a discussion - Michael Walling with Juwon Ogungbe, Arne Pohlmeier, Kate Stafford & Dev Virahsawmy - Michael Walling
'Sa bezsominn Shakespeare la': The Brave New World of Dev Virahsawmy - Ashish Beesondial
Crioulo Shakespeareano & the creolising of King Lear - Eunice Ferreira
Playscript: Wesoo, Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet by Femi Osofisan - Femi Osofisan
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Über Autor(innen)

Osofisan Femi:
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Plastow Jane:
Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds.Osofisan Femi:
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Matzke Christine:
CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin.Plastow Jane:
Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds.