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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Page 152
... lord . " His explanatory double - entendre , " I mean my head upon your lap , " had allowed her to agree , " Ay , my lord . " But she had thereafter retreated from the thrust of his " Do you think I meant country matters ? " with " I ...
... lord . " His explanatory double - entendre , " I mean my head upon your lap , " had allowed her to agree , " Ay , my lord . " But she had thereafter retreated from the thrust of his " Do you think I meant country matters ? " with " I ...
Page 304
... lord in his garden " to special effect . He had done so in a world whose new testament could not be " writ / In any book , " not surprisingly ; for it was in a spot " where none can see " that Ste Ursule had made “ Him ” an offering ...
... lord in his garden " to special effect . He had done so in a world whose new testament could not be " writ / In any book , " not surprisingly ; for it was in a spot " where none can see " that Ste Ursule had made “ Him ” an offering ...
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... Lord of Lords did not think too highly to leave his High Throne in Ethiopia to sit on a chair in the King's House among the servants of the earth . ” And this his coming , it would be noted , " lifted us from the dust and caused us to ...
... Lord of Lords did not think too highly to leave his High Throne in Ethiopia to sit on a chair in the King's House among the servants of the earth . ” And this his coming , it would be noted , " lifted us from the dust and caused us to ...
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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