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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... dark seduction . For there is much here that exceeds the antiphon of mere verbal conceits with which , in Love's Labour's Lost , the King insists that a " black as ebony love " is the " badge of hell " and " the style of night " while ...
... dark seduction . For there is much here that exceeds the antiphon of mere verbal conceits with which , in Love's Labour's Lost , the King insists that a " black as ebony love " is the " badge of hell " and " the style of night " while ...
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... dark as their manner was . The bright spark which went down home with that blessed [ Queen ] held on its shining amid the darkness , till the new Day - spring came . The bright spark met with this shining , and illumined the place ...
... dark as their manner was . The bright spark which went down home with that blessed [ Queen ] held on its shining amid the darkness , till the new Day - spring came . The bright spark met with this shining , and illumined the place ...
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... dark ships move , the dark ships move their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth Desire , Adventure , Tartar , Ann . ( 1975 : 118 ) With jest , Jesus , and murder - and a dead reckoning of " the profit on't ...
... dark ships move , the dark ships move their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth Desire , Adventure , Tartar , Ann . ( 1975 : 118 ) With jest , Jesus , and murder - and a dead reckoning of " the profit on't ...
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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