{"title":"Marx, Herder and the German Shakespearean Dialectic: A review essay","authors":"Tony Voss","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v36i1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v36i1.12","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"4 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140745401","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":"Sounding the polyphonic cacophony of Macbeth with a young Jozi ensemble","authors":"Sarah Roberts","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Digital theatre-making initiatives that had emerged during Covid-19 lockdowns urged an interrogation of the languages of live theatre when, in South Africa, as the public arena reopened and social interaction resumed, reconfigured notions of theatre-making seemed apt. Reformulating and reimagining the operations of the medium, and the processes through which stage productions evolve, not only applied aspects of successful digital theatre but also aligned with the ideological imperatives of decolonisation. The Joburg Theatre Youth Development Programme production of Macbeth (2021) offered an opportunity to explore soundscape through the interplay of spoken word and non-semantic avian and animal calls. As a point of entry to staging the play, ensemble-based improvisation around developing a soundscape led to a more considered mapping of ornithological images, their connotations and theatrical efficacy. Extended play in generating birdcalls was instrumental in building performers’ confidence in transposition and spontaneous translation from English to vernacular languages to give this rendition of Macbeth an edgy, contemporary, local tone. This article documents and addresses the rehearsal processes and some outcomes of the approach that was adopted.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125171684","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}
Anston Bosman, Sarah Roberts, Anya Heise-von der Lippe
{"title":"Roundtable: Macbeth and birds, on stage and screen","authors":"Anston Bosman, Sarah Roberts, Anya Heise-von der Lippe","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"284 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115528545","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":"The age, the stage – and Touchstone: Shakespeare and Sidney reconsidered","authors":"P. Titlestad","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The Elizabethan Age was a cruel and contradictory time. Who were the Puritans? Who attacked the stage? Sidney, glamorous young courtier and sonneteer, defender of literature, had strong Huguenot and reformed connections. Shakespeare, a conformed Catholic, gave Sidney’s fruitful arguments unexpected expression. Sidney also gave Shakespeare fruitful irritation, and the humour in some of his plays relied on audiences who knew their Sidney for the full joke. Falstaff and King Arthur have walk-on parts in this tale of paradox, with its extensive backdrop of theological savagery.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116991576","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":"Carmelo Bene’s misreadings of Hamlet and Macbeth: A decolonial perspective?","authors":"Raphael D’ Abdon","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on some of the most influential studies on Carmelo Bene, this article aims to offer interpretive tools that will enhance viewers’ and listeners’ appreciation of his misreadings of Hamlet and Macbeth. It also suggests that la scrittura di scena (scenic writing) and la macchina attoriale (the actorial machine), his most celebrated inventions as an actor, dramatist and musicologist, are two theatrical methods that could possibly assist the ongoing decolonial reinvention of Shakespeare’s stories in the (South) African context. The article provides introductory biographical notes on Bene and an overview of his main literary and philosophical influences. It then discusses the key concepts of scenic writing and the actorial machine as applied to Bene’s rewriting of Hamlet and Macbeth. Finally, it suggests some potential lines of research for decolonial scholars, playwrights, actors and poets from South Africa and beyond.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129366616","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":"Reimagining King Lear – and Capitalism","authors":"C. Nolte","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"72 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130565725","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":"“Light thickens; and the crow/Makes wing to the rooky wood”: Birds and the blurring of boundaries between real and metaphorical nature in Joel Coen’s Macbeth","authors":"Anya Heise-von der Lippe","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how the recent film adaptation of Macbeth directed by Joel Coen (2021) uses nature imagery – most prominently birds – to visualise ambiguities of literal and metaphorical meaning already inherent in the language of Shakespeare’s play, as well as Akira Kurosawa’s filmic adaptation Throne of Blood (1958). My arguments focus on the visual strategies used in Coen’s film to stylise the language of Shakespeare’s text for today’s cinematic audiences by drawing attention to the ways in which elements of nature are connected to specific characters, serving as harbingers of their emotional states and developments.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122668523","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":"Quizzical Shakespeare: Balancing information and informality","authors":"L. Ritchie","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v35i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v35i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126522079","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":"Context and Co-text in Bernard Ogini’s Hamlet for Pidgin (Oga Pikin)","authors":"Odirin V. Abonyi","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v34i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v34i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a phenomenon that may trigger a resurgence in the pleasure of reading or watching performances of Shakespeare’s plays in Nigeria: adaptation and translation into Naija (previously Nigerian Pidgin). Specifically, it examines how the Naija translation Hamlet for Pidgin (Oga Pikin) is prototypical for such a revival. The study adopts a comparative approach and explicates how anaphoric reformulation (AR), cataphoric reformulation (CR) and exophoric reformulation (ER) condition the translation’s peculiar lexico-semantic choices in terms of borrowing, reduplicatives, calquing and the like. These forms enter a networked relationship within the co-text and context to bring about a contemporary equivalent to Hamlet. Readers and audiences extract meaning through clues such as collocation, background knowledge and other linking strategies provided consciously or unconsciously by the author/translator. The article concludes that this translation is also significant for its shift away from the cathartic effect of Shakespearean tragedy and towards a comic mode that has greater popular appeal.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125576520","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}