{"title":"The Machiavellian Prince in The Tempest","authors":"Arlene Oseman","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71876","url":null,"abstract":"The far-reaching sway of Italy and all things Italian on the recuperation of classical arts and culture in England during the Renaissance is indisputable. Despite the rather limited physical contact between ordinary Italians and Britons during the early modern period, there is overwhelming evidence that Italian literature and culture made a decisive incursion into English thought and practice via both imported writings and word-of-mouth from adventurers, merchants, courtiers and immigrants. Hugh Grady argues that \"such influences travelled discursively and need not have been direct to be meaningful\" (Grady [A] 121). This influence is, of course, already discernable in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which he pays a kind of literary homage to the Italian Boccaccio's Decameron. It seems that Chaucer pioneered a transnational interchange which continued for centuries after his definitive work.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122086542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatre Review: Romeo and Juliet","authors":"S. V. Schalkwyk","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71893","url":null,"abstract":"As a young, black, female artist, Dada Masilo inhabits a position which affords her ample opportunity to refer to conventions of race and gender local to South Africa, even as she attempts to negotiate the difficult bond between the contemporary South African moment and its history of colonial and post-colonial relationship to Shakespeare's England. Her version of Romeo and Juliet is a fascinating example of the way in which creative artists map the border between the past and the present, and the difficult attempt to pay homage to inspirational precursors without sacrificing the integrity of their own creative vision.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114162933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A midsummer night's raiders : theatre reviews","authors":"Donald Powers","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71892","url":null,"abstract":"It would be a mistake to think that one needs to reread A Midsummer Night's Dream before watching the latest offering in Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen's \"Raiders\" series: a mistake because this production is not the Ellenbogens' reply to a favourite Shakespearean comedy but a playful and creative misreading of all of Shakespeare. That is to say, the Ellenbogens ostensibly take all of Shakespeare - his plays, his sonnets, his person - as their text, but it would be more accurate to say that Shakespeare serves as a pretext or sustained excuse for an exhibition of Raiders humour.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123506322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Absent: The English Teacher.","authors":"G. Gaylard","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71896","url":null,"abstract":"Obsolescence and anachronism, perhaps unsurprisingly, have been prominent in Southern African fiction of late, or perhaps just in Southern African fiction by white males. Most famously apparent in Coetzee's Disgrace and Vladislavic's The Restless Supermarket, this theme deals with the detritus of empire in the form of white males (David Lurie and Aubrey Tearle) who find themselves redundant and retired, respectively, in the context of 'the new South Africa' after 1994, and have to begin to scrape together some sort of new life. Much of the drama and amusement, again respectively, comes from both characters being not much up to the challenge. In both cases they are somewhat set in their ways and full of the assumptions and easy judgements that a lifetime cosseted within the safety net of apartheid's sheltered employment allowed. Both rail against the plenitude of errors and injustices that accompany the inversion of the racial hierarchy that leaves them high and dry, and find themselves unable (and perhaps more importantly, unwilling) to overcome their ingrained prejudices and values. Moreover, both protagonists find their resources limited and both are thrown back on a level of basic skill that they have utterly forgotten about for many decades. However, the fact that both novels have been well-received - the former winning the Booker Prize in 1999 and the latter the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2002 - and have become mainstays of post-apartheid literary culture and education, suggests that the more things change the more they stay the same; in other words, decades, even centuries, of preeminence cannot just be swept away.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129763701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sossius, Talbot and the Parthian scene in Antony and Cleopatra","authors":"Brian Seonghwa Lee","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71873","url":null,"abstract":"Students of Shakespeare may be forgiven for overlooking the part played by Sossius in Antony and Cleopatra. An historical figure of some note in Josephus, he finds scant mention in North, Shakespeare's major source, as a fellow lieutenant of Ventidius, and has only an attenuated role in Act 3 Scene 1 as an exemplar of his \"grand captain's\" (3.1.9) jealousy. In fact he does not even appear, and the use his name is put to exceeds what history records. But it is important, for it reveals Antony's limitations even when he is militarily triumphant.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122573573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging Roberto Bonati's The Blanket of the Dark : a twenty-first century vision of 'The Scottish Play'","authors":"Marc Duby","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71887","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Music at Rhodes University inaugurated the International Spring Music Festival in 2009. One of the central educational goals of this festival is to provide a platform for student performers to interact with local and international music professionals and to exchange knowledge about performance practice through making music together. The shortage of informal venues for public performance and Grahamstown's relative physical isolation from major centres are factors that tend to limit possibilities for students to perform in front of an audience, and the festival provided a number of opportunities for this.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116556014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All's well that end's well : theatre reviews","authors":"David Smith","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71891","url":null,"abstract":"Sam Mendes, the British director, was recently asked about the potential of 3D to transform the cinema-going experience. \"I said that I already do 3D,\" he mused. \"It's called theatre.\"","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115158984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hamlet : rational and emotional units of meaning in four soliloquies","authors":"B. Pearce, K. Duffy","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71885","url":null,"abstract":"The idea for this paper came out of an interaction between two academics working in the separate fields of Mathematics and Drama Studies at Durban University of Technology. Our aim was to try and use a system dynamic analysis to chart the emotional and intellectual conflict within Hamlet's character, as revealed in his four principal soliloquies. To do this the first step was to attempt to quantify the extent of emotional and intellectual facets to parts of his speech. This paper gives what we think is the interesting result of this attempt.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114932595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthony and Cleopatra : theatre reviews","authors":"","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71890","url":null,"abstract":"In his Director's Note, Marthinus Basson describes this production of Antony and Cleopatra in disarmingly modest terms: he tells us he \"decided not to go with a 'high concept' but rather to focus on and explore the spaces between the fault-lines of the epic sweep and drama suggested by Shakespeare's text\" (Basson n.p.). In doing so he \"tried to give some weight to the little man, the loyal servant and follower, the slimy bureaucrat and the visionary\". And yet we would be foolish to mistake Basson's considered approach here for interpretative docility.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122869013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pop-splat, Ian Martin : book reviews","authors":"T. Jaffery","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71897","url":null,"abstract":"According to the acknowledgements page, Ian Martin's self-published novella Pop-Splat \"is a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Hamlet\"; and, according to the blurb on the back cover, the author \"looks at today's South Africa through cynical eyes and uses his unique brand of sick humour to satirize a sick society\".","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133271788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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