In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. Desmet and Williams, 2009), both of which base their analyses of the Shakespeare-Gothic intersection on the premise that...

The Royal Shakespeare Company created the Stand Up for Shakespeare (SUFS) program to change the way students encounter Shakespeare in school. The program prepares teachers to help students engage with Shakespeare the way actors would—interacting with the plays as scripts to be acted rather than texts to be read. Through this pedagogy, SUFS aims to increase students' interest in Shakespeare and ...

The 2012 London Olympics ushered in a new era of global Shakespearean appropriation. The Globe-to-Globe festival, held in conjunction with the Olympics, brought theater companies from many parts of the world to the United Kingdom to perform Shakespeare in their own languages (“37 plays in 37 languages”). Globe-to-Globe suggested the ethical aspirations of such ambitious Shakespearean events as ...

1 Shakespeare is considered to be many things—including many people— but one thing that Shakespeare is not considered is a fool.Yet this would not be as great an insult as it sounds. Shakespeare wrote many “fools” into his plays, most of whom were treated respectfully. A few even had major roles in his works. Distinctions must be made within the category of fools, however: clowns, who turn farc...

The early modern dramatic paratext is a rich and varied repository of tributes to patrons and readers, where dramatists negotiated or parodied their attitudes towards dramatic publication and their reliance on the medium of print as a source of income and literary reputation. However, the lack of signed dedications or addresses to the reader in the early editions of Shakespeare’s plays has defl...

this article aims at reading the winter's tale with respect to hegel's argument in aesthetics: lectures on fine art. the researchers try to apply hegel's notion of art to the artistic aspects of the mentioned play by shakespeare. the play's aesthetic values will be examined and illustrated from two differing but interdependent classical and romantic perspectives based on heg...

Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the efforts and assistance of many other people. I would like to extend a special thanks to Prof. YuJin Ko, without whose superhuman support and understanding, this thesis would never have been possible. Prof. Ko's wealth of experience and knowledge, not to mention his encouragement, has made my work and me immeasurably better. M...

William Shakespeare has been part of the cinema since 1899. In the twentieth century almost a thousand films in some way based upon his plays were made, but the vast majority of those which sought to faithfully present his plays to the cinema audience failed at the box office. Since the start of the twenty-first century only one English language film using Shakespeare’s text has made a profit, ...

Little is known of the private life of William Shakespeare, but he is famous for his collection of plays and poems, even though many of the works attributed to him were published anonymously. Determining the identity of Shakespeare has fascinated scholars for 400 years, and four significant figures in English literary history have been suggested as likely alternatives to Shakespeare for some di...