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 67
... turned to rams ... Who then conceiving ... , " Shakespeare's Shylock once tried to explain . However , impatient with the fulsome note in the Jew's attempt at an exegesis on Jacob's " way to thrive " and to be blest , Antonio had ...
... turned to rams ... Who then conceiving ... , " Shakespeare's Shylock once tried to explain . However , impatient with the fulsome note in the Jew's attempt at an exegesis on Jacob's " way to thrive " and to be blest , Antonio had ...
Page 76
... turned whore " whose giving only famishes taking ; and who , " riggish , " " makes hungry where she most satisfies . " Not even Antony can resist a certain thrust and cut during a lovers ' quarrel ( and on the woman's birthday , besides ...
... turned whore " whose giving only famishes taking ; and who , " riggish , " " makes hungry where she most satisfies . " Not even Antony can resist a certain thrust and cut during a lovers ' quarrel ( and on the woman's birthday , besides ...
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... turned on the light .... But [ as for ] the defendant ... his mysterious translation could not have been a matter of ... turning black , that he was black . Because , of course , his whole psychology must have changed . In that instant ...
... turned on the light .... But [ as for ] the defendant ... his mysterious translation could not have been a matter of ... turning black , that he was black . Because , of course , his whole psychology must have changed . In that instant ...
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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