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Article: Recounting our dreams: imagining Shakespeare in two recent film and televised adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream.(Shakespeare on Screen)(Report)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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An adaptation of a Shakespeare play often employs strategies that simultaneously recover and resist Shakespeare's version, presenting itself, on the one hand, as an adaptation of an original Shakespearean work and, on the other, as an original work daring to use Shakespeare's play as source. Implicit, or explicit, in these adaptations is a declaration of independence from a Shakespearean progenitor that paradoxically reaffirms a Shakespearean allegiance. What could be more Shakespearean than the audacious boast of an upstart crow? Or, in the case of Christine Edzard, little eyases that cry out on the top of question? Indeed, two recent adaptations of Shakespeare's A ...