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 135
... dream , And rack [ him ] in their fancies . ( Measure for Measure IV.i.58-64 ) I propose , then , that far more than the usual degree of elegance and cleverness was staked out when , in 1940 and variously elsewhere , Borges resorted to ...
... dream , And rack [ him ] in their fancies . ( Measure for Measure IV.i.58-64 ) I propose , then , that far more than the usual degree of elegance and cleverness was staked out when , in 1940 and variously elsewhere , Borges resorted to ...
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... dream and life , without ever learning where the dream began and the life ended " ( 125 ) . He also articulates the collapse of his great expectations in the unadorned vernacular that we get in " Cities they call them ! " - when all ...
... dream and life , without ever learning where the dream began and the life ended " ( 125 ) . He also articulates the collapse of his great expectations in the unadorned vernacular that we get in " Cities they call them ! " - when all ...
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... dream - making a vain attempt , because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation , that conmingling of absurdity , surprise , and bewilder- ment in a tremor of struggling revolt , that notion of being captured by the ...
... dream - making a vain attempt , because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation , that conmingling of absurdity , surprise , and bewilder- ment in a tremor of struggling revolt , that notion of being captured by the ...
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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