Shakespeare and the ethics of appropriation

About this book

At a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated Shakespeare constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare," Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation" is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity. The collected essays approach ethics from a rich variety of perspectives: some explore how ethical issues in Shakespeare's plays have been received and interpreted, some investigate the ethical commitments of Shakespearean appropriations, and some interrogate the ethical tenets that underlie the processes of adaptation and appropriation. As a whole, the volume suggests that appropriations are always on some level comparative and that their work has value in generating sites of discussion between otherwise strongly divergent frameworks of understanding.