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By Alexa Huang, Elizabeth Rivlin

ISBN-10: 1137375779

ISBN-13: 9781137375773

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ISBN-13: 9781349477449

Making an immense new contribution to quickly increasing fields of research surrounding the variation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the 1st booklet to handle the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.

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In his analyses, Hawkes often deploys counter-readings of Shakespeare’s text—often allied with carnivality, aurality and anarchic pleasure—to refute or dismantle the arguments of his interlocutors. That is, no small part of the rhetorical force of Hawkes’s essays depends upon an implicit appeal to the authority of the “original” Shakespeare text situated in an historically “authentic” context. Though we all may mean by Shakespeare, the appeal to the text allows some to mean more authentically and authoritatively than others.

I chose it precisely because I suspect my student audience might find its production values annoyingly unpolished, its politics old-fashioned, its status as a “proper” version of Hamlet questionable; that is, I chose it because the film pushes against many of their received notions of proper Shakespearean value. The usefulness of Strange Illusion rests in what it can, by its relation to other adaptations, illuminate about intensities and Shakespearean Rhizomatics M 35 complex relations in the larger Shakespearean rhizome, including what happens to the meaning of “Shakespeare” and “Hamlet” when one designates an ambiguous adaptation like Strange Illusion Shakespearean.

The aim would not be to produce a grand genealogical narrative that unites the texts under consideration, for such a narrative would suggest an element of historical necessity to their relation and obscure the extent to which they partake of relations with non-Shakespearean material. Rather, the aim is to stress the crossing lines of association and difference that give creative energy to each adaptation, to recover something of the qualities of contingency and choice that these adaptations might exhibit, and to suggest how those lines of energy might illuminate the nature of “Shakespeare,” both historically and in the present.

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