{"product_id":"9781137444523","title":"Adaptation in Theatre and Performance: 'Upstart Crows'","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAdaptation in Theatre and Performance: 'Upstart Crows'\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSaunders, Graham\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's \u003ci\u003eRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e to Sarah Kane’s \u003ci\u003eBlasted \u003c\/i\u003eand Jez Butterworth’s \u003ci\u003eJerusalem.\u003c\/i\u003e Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker,  Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-10-24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137444523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-44453-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 194\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752457400460,"sku":"9781137444523","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137444523.jpg?v=1772932926","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137444523","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}