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 109
... kind of liberties that the Jew allowed Portia's cleverness , or Launcelot's low comedy when he decides to seek employment outside Shylock's home ; " for I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer . " The play harps on this degree of ...
... kind of liberties that the Jew allowed Portia's cleverness , or Launcelot's low comedy when he decides to seek employment outside Shylock's home ; " for I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer . " The play harps on this degree of ...
Page 159
... kind of kinship and love " ; " a new kind of fear and hatred called apartheid " ( La Guma 107 ) . Nkosi and Suzman , Abrahams and La Guma - and Coetzee — thus foreground certain dimensions of the Renaissance playwright that Jack Jorgens ...
... kind of kinship and love " ; " a new kind of fear and hatred called apartheid " ( La Guma 107 ) . Nkosi and Suzman , Abrahams and La Guma - and Coetzee — thus foreground certain dimensions of the Renaissance playwright that Jack Jorgens ...
Page 382
... kind ( 268 ) . Ambivalence of this kind is , it may be argued , an act of historical and moral generosity , of aesthetic gratitude even , so caught ( up ) was Walcott , for one , in the blinding clarity of a trance / fixing illumination ...
... kind ( 268 ) . Ambivalence of this kind is , it may be argued , an act of historical and moral generosity , of aesthetic gratitude even , so caught ( up ) was Walcott , for one , in the blinding clarity of a trance / fixing illumination ...
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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