Latin American Shakespeares by Bernice W. Kliman, Rick J. Santos - 9781611473063

Latin American ShakespearesAuthor(s): Bernice W. Kliman, Rick J. Santos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press\nISBN-13: 9781611473063, 978-1611473063\nSynopsis\nThe subjects of the essays in Latin American Shakespeares range from the nineteenth century through the present; from high- to middle- to low-brow stories, plays, films, and poems; from Mexico to Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the [url] barrio, and diverse sections of Brazil; from artists deservedly famous to artists undeservedly obscure. Shakespeare in Latin America is often implicated in struggles for power - tangentially or directly - and therefore swells the story of world wide political Shakespeare. For Latin American artists, the Shakespearean legacy is available for co-optation not only through parody, adaptation, and both reverent and irreverent (re)creation but also through absorption into unique indigenous genres.\n\nRick J. Santos in his ie