David Bevington
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199599103
- eISBN:
- 9780191731501
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599103.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in its own day, and then how the play has fared ...
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This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in its own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and film; critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations; the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. Since all these things go hand in hand over the centuries, the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.
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This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in its own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and film; critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations; the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. Since all these things go hand in hand over the centuries, the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.
David Johnson
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183150
- eISBN:
- 9780191673955
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183150.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book is a study of the teaching and criticism of William Shakespeare in South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present day, covering a number of key historical ...
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This book is a study of the teaching and criticism of William Shakespeare in South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present day, covering a number of key historical moments in the interpretation of Shakespeare. It contributes to the well-established debate focused on the ‘neo-colonial’ use of ‘English literature’ and to the more recent interest in the conditions of cultural assimilation. The wide range of source materials used for this book – including Cape Department of Education examination papers and exam reports, as well as newspaper articles and essays – provides detailed research into the formulation of a literary education policy in South Africa. The insights into changes in thinking about pedagogic and cultural issues in the South African colonial ‘periphery’ and into the values associated with those changes makes for a significant resource for South African cultural studies.
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This book is a study of the teaching and criticism of William Shakespeare in South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present day, covering a number of key historical moments in the interpretation of Shakespeare. It contributes to the well-established debate focused on the ‘neo-colonial’ use of ‘English literature’ and to the more recent interest in the conditions of cultural assimilation. The wide range of source materials used for this book – including Cape Department of Education examination papers and exam reports, as well as newspaper articles and essays – provides detailed research into the formulation of a literary education policy in South Africa. The insights into changes in thinking about pedagogic and cultural issues in the South African colonial ‘periphery’ and into the values associated with those changes makes for a significant resource for South African cultural studies.
