SHAKSPER 2004: Hamlet in Other Plays?
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Date: 05/24/04
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1104 Monday, 24 May 2004
[1] From: John Drakakis <john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 12:56:16 +0100
Subj: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[2] From: Todd Pettigrew <todd_pettigrew@uccb.ca>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 09:20:56 -0300
Subj: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[3] From: Annalisa Castaldo <axc0307@mail.widener.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 08:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[4] From: Suzanne Westfall <westfals@mail.lafayette.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 08:47:51 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[5] From: Kristen Mcdermott <mcder1k@cmich.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 09:39:43 -0400
Subj: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[6] From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Date: Saturday, 22 May 2004 11:58:15 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
[7] From: Susan St. John <suzer22@earthlink.net>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 20:11:30 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
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From: John Drakakis <john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 12:56:16 +0100
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Try Macbeth: Joe MacBeth (film: 1955), MacBird, and also Men of Respect
(film, 1989).
Cheers,
John Drakakis
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From: Todd Pettigrew <todd_pettigrew@uccb.ca>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 09:20:56 -0300
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
A wonderful reimagining of Shakespeare on stage is Good Night Desdemona,
Good Morning Juliet, by Ann-Marie MacDonald. That play adapts Romeo &
Juliet and Othello into a very funny, rather surreal, slightly racy, romp.
Todd Pettigrew
UCCB
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From: Annalisa Castaldo <axc0307@mail.widener.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 08:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
In addition to R&G are Dead, there is also Charles Marowitz's adaptation
of Hamlet (he also did a Taming of the Shrew and others) which is very
postmodern, and A Night in Elsinore by Richard Nathan.
And there is also Der Bestrafte Brudermord" ("Fratricide Punished"). I
don't know how easy it is to get a translation, and the play is pretty
dreadful, but it does raise interesting issues of transmission and
editorial history.
You could also have some fun with the second act of The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare, abridged, which is devoted to Hamlet, and the
Klingon Hamlet.
Annalisa Castaldo
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From: Suzanne Westfall <westfals@mail.lafayette.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 08:47:51 -0400
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Off the top of my head, Hamlet also begat Heiner Muller's Hamletmachine
and Lee Blessing's Fortinbras (not to mention The Reduced Shakespeare
Company's Compete Works slapstick version); Lear begat Howard Barker's
Seven Lears , Mabu Mines' Queen Lear, and Elaine Feinstein's Lear's
Daughters; and The Tempest begat Aimé Césaire's A Tempest. You might
check out Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier's, Adaptations of
Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the Seventeenth Century
to the Present (including Nahum Tate's priceless re-workings).
Cheers,
Zanne
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From: Kristen Mcdermott <mcder1k@cmich.edu>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 09:39:43 -0400
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: RE: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Two take-offs on Othello:
Paula Vogel's "Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief" is irreverent and
witty; Anne-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet"
is more sitcom-like and offers a pastiche of plays.
-- Kris McDermott
Central Michigan University
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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Date: Saturday, 22 May 2004 11:58:15 -0500
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Though Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is the only play, the story
has also been written by Boccaccio (Il Filostrato), Chaucer (Troilus and
Creseyde), and Robert Henryson (The Testament of Cresseid). The various
versions are excellent for studying different approaches to
characterization, etc.
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From: Susan St. John <suzer22@earthlink.net>
Date: Friday, 21 May 2004 20:11:30 -0700
Subject: 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1095 Hamlet in Other Plays?
Sounds like an interesting project.
Shrew has some other plays that I know of (I am currently working on a
similar idea for my Masters, but I am just in the proposal stage, so I
haven't actually read any of these yet - I recently pulled some online
library listings for later look-up):
John Lacy's "Sauny the Scot"
Worsdale, James, "A cure for a scold", London, Cornmarket P., 1969,
facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London, L. Gulliver [1735]. Taken from
John Lacy's Sauny the Scot; or, The taming of the shrew, an alteration
of Shakespeare's play.
Worsdale, James, "A cure for a scold: a ballad farce of two acts :
founded upon Shakespeare's Taming of a shrew" London: Printed for L.
Gilliver, [1735] Note Libretto only. Based in part on: Sauny the Scot,
or, The taming of the shrew / John Lacy. "As it is acted by His
Majesty's company of comedians at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
[I'm not sure how these two are different but one appears to be a
musical of sorts]
Anonymous, "A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew"
[London] : Printed at London by Peter Short and are to be sold by
Cutbert Burbie, 1594. Note An anonymous play from which Shakespeare
derived his The taming of the shrew; variously ascribed to Kyd, Greene,
and Marlowe; cf. Schelling F.E. Eliz. drama 1558-1642, 1908: v. 1, p.
340. "As it was sundry times acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of
Pembrook, his servants."
I also thought of the Joan of Ark story, which is part of HVI part 1, as
well as Anouilh's "The Lark" and Shaw's "Saint Joan" and probably others.
And then there's the new Stephen Schwartz musical, "Wicked" (just got 10
or 12 Tony nominations) which was derived from the book by the same
name, but tells the story of the Wicked Witch of the West before Dorothy
visits Oz...and there are LOTS of stage versions of the Oz stories.
Hope this is helpful,
Susan.
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