SHAKESPEARE CULTURAL INTERFERENCES. SLIDING OF THE PLAY’S SEMANTICS IN THE DIRECTING PROCESS BETWEEN EUROPE, ASIA AND THE VIRTUAL SPACE Cover Image

INTERFERENȚE CULTURALE SHAKESPEARE. GLISAREA SEMANTICĂ A TEXTULUI DRAMATIC ÎN PROCESUL REGIZORAL ÎNTRE EUROPA, ASIA ȘI SPAȚIUL VIRTUAL
SHAKESPEARE CULTURAL INTERFERENCES. SLIDING OF THE PLAY’S SEMANTICS IN THE DIRECTING PROCESS BETWEEN EUROPE, ASIA AND THE VIRTUAL SPACE

Author(s): Ioana Petcu
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: William Shakespeare; Peter Brook; TomažPandur; Yukio Ninagawa; referentiality; interculturalism

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important heritage of the universal literature, William Shakespeare’s work constitutes itselfalso as a prolific, inexhaustible and fascinating material for the lecture on stage, regardless of continent or time when it isaccomplished. Taking Hamlet for a landmark, our study follows the multiple ways of resemantization of this play in cultural viewpoints of various directors: the English Peter Brook, the Slovenian Tomaž Pandur, the Japanese Yukio Ninagawa. In the comparatist approach, from text to performance, we closely observe the unifying coordinates, and the code or message difference, too. Interesting it was for us bothchanges in the text and those between the stage directors’ perspectives. But the continuity and vitality of this encyclopedic work is not resumed on literature area or on the stage enactment. The “last” Shakespeare belonging to our time is the one placed on virtual space. We analyzed some of the virtual forms in which the playwright get global dimensions, from online projects dedicated to the brit author’s work, to myth and parodic presence on web communities. How does the “last” Shakespeare look, how far can hebe “estranged” – these are few of the questions on which it is worth meditatingupon,under the multiculturalism sign.

  • Issue Year: 17/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 156-168
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian