Specialisation seminar: Intertextualities: re-writing and adapting Hamlet 2510-f1ENG3W-SS-IRAH
Ćwiczenia (CW) Semestr zimowy 2019/20

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Dentith, Simon. 2000. Parody. London, NY: Routledge.

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Novy, Marianne (ed.). 2000. Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. NY: Palgrave.

Peterson, Kaara. 1998. Framing Ophelia: Representation and the pictorial tradition. Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Winnipeg: Sep 1998.Vol. 31, Iss. 3.

Sanders, Julie. 2006. Adaptation and Appropriation. London: Routledge.

Showalter, Elaine. 1987. The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture. London: Virago.

Further reading:

Chedgzoy, Kate (ed.). 2001. Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender. NY: Palgrave.

Hedrick, Donald and Bryan Reynolds. 2000. Shakespeare without Class. NY: Palgrave.

Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta. 2012. “Re-Writing Ophelia: Iconography of Madness and Death in Bryony Lavery’s and Deborah Levy’s Plays”. The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography. Ed. Mirosława Buchholtz, Grzegorz Koneczniak. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 43-63.

Orr, Mary. 2003. Intertextuality: Debates and contexts. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Rose, Margaret. 1993. Parody: Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sosnowska, Monika. 2009. “New York City of 2000 as Pars Pro Toto in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet”. Images of the City. Ed. A. Rasmus and M. Cieślak. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 135-146.

The seminar investigates the processes involved in the circulation of texts and themes in culture, focusing on intertextuality, adaptation, parody and re-writing.

These processes will be examined taking as an example adaptations and new versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The texts and films considered will include the plays by Tom Stoppard, feminist revisions of Shakespearean plays, postcolonial productions of Hamlet, psychoanalytic interpretations of Hamlet and iconographic representations of Ophelia.

Introduction

Intertextualities

Adaptation/Appropriation

Parody

Post-colonial and multicultural Shakespeares.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (the original?)

Hamlet 2000 (Michael Almereyda)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (film adaptation); 15 minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard

Ophelia by Bryony Lavery, Pushing the Prince into Denmark by Deborah Levy - feminist revisions

Ophelia – madness, iconography, the Internet, parody.

Psychoanalytic interpretations

Presentations of the theatre/film/music/art/video projects based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.