Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of CultureThis complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay, and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's reception in Africa as compared with that in Europe and the Americas". |
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... Caliban and Miranda are seen side by side : opposite and contiguous at the same time . They share an ignorance that ... Caliban's mother - a memory which " for some reason arouses him to rage that is almost insane . For all that he is a ...
... Caliban and Miranda are seen side by side : opposite and contiguous at the same time . They share an ignorance that ... Caliban's mother - a memory which " for some reason arouses him to rage that is almost insane . For all that he is a ...
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... Caliban enters in Act 1. , cursing Prospero and protesting bitterly , " This island's mine , by Sycorax my mother . " [ And then ] , " You taught me language , and my profit on't / Is , I know how to curse . " ... Caliban's retort might ...
... Caliban enters in Act 1. , cursing Prospero and protesting bitterly , " This island's mine , by Sycorax my mother . " [ And then ] , " You taught me language , and my profit on't / Is , I know how to curse . " ... Caliban's retort might ...
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... Caliban , Suite de " la TempĂȘte " : " Renan saw Demos in Caliban ; in his continuation of The Tempest he took him to Milan and made him attempt another , victorious coup against Prospero . [ It marks an interpre- tation that is ] flat ...
... Caliban , Suite de " la TempĂȘte " : " Renan saw Demos in Caliban ; in his continuation of The Tempest he took him to Milan and made him attempt another , victorious coup against Prospero . [ It marks an interpre- tation that is ] flat ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
womanchild in the compromised land | 17 |
The Lands of America and | 183 |
Copyright | |
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Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of Culture Lemuel A. Johnson No preview available - 1998 |
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