{"title":"Dogged Shakespeare: Richard III at Maynardville","authors":"C. Gordon","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.9","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW: Richard III, directed by Geoffrey Hyland. Maynardville Open-Air Theatre, Cape Town, February/March 2019.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124636963","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":"Shakespeare in the Under/Other World: Sandra Young’s Shakespeare in the Global South","authors":"Ambereen Dadabhoy","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW: Sandra Young, Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of oceans crossed in contemporary adaptation(London: Bloomsbury, 2019).","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124487776","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":"Shakespeare’s Mavericks and the Machiavellian Moment","authors":"Frances M. Ringwood","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Niccolo Machiavelli’s works impacted Shakespeare’s context directly through the availability of manuscript translations. There were also a variety of sources where Machiavelli’s impact was indirect – for example, the mirror for princes genre, Innocent Gentillet’s Discours Contre Machiavel (1576) and Marlowe’s plays featuring the stage Machiavel. Shakespeare may also have known Edmund Spenser, who was familiar with The Prince (1532). Machiavelli’s contribution to ideas about politics, across different borders and historical contexts, has been demonstrated by intellectual historians, Quentin Skinner and J.G.A. Pocock. They show Machiavelli’s contribution to destabilising accepted myths about monarchical supremacy. This article discusses Hal’s, Hamlet’s and Kent’s exercising of their political will as unique responses to the complicated political intrigues of 1 Henry IV, Hamlet and King Lear. These political mavericks demonstrate coherent psychological responses to poisonous political situations.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130653698","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: “If That Small Sparke Could Yield So Great a Fire”: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia and Eugenie Freed’s A Several Plot","authors":"Greg Homann","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Book Title: A Several PlotBook Author: Eugenie Freed(Johannesburg: Eugenie R. Freed, 2017)Book Title: EmiliaBook Author: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm(London: Oberon, 2018)","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124767834","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: Plaatje, Shakespeare and the In-Between","authors":"Lauren Bates","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Book Title: Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876–1932Book Author: Brian Willan(Johannesburg: Jacana, 2018)","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126294511","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 Life in Stories, Life as Stories: Hamlet and narrative reanimation","authors":"Anna Kurian","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies Shakespeare’s employment of narrative and storytelling in terms of ‘life after death’ in Hamlet . It argues that Shakespeare posits and postulates the possibility of life after death not in spiritual terms but in terms of the narratives that one leaves behind, in the stories, enunciated and heard by others, that perpetuate, after a fashion, one’s life. Hamlet shows us, readers and viewers, that life and the afterlife are about stories and storytelling. I contend that while his natural life does end, Hamlet ’s life continues via the narrative authority he bestows on Horatio, making Horatio the author of his story and in doing so prolonging it but also leaving it inconclusive. I identify a mode of reanimation, as one might think of it, in Hamlet : in addition to worms which live off a corpse and thus reanimate the dead there is also a revivification which takes place via the narratives and speech of the living about the dead. The narrative reanimation of those who die perpetuates their lives: keeping them alive in minimal ways and making of them a form of the living dead.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"357-360 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125305979","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 melancholy of mine own”: The cost of healing and the bad patient","authors":"T. Leverton","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The act of ‘curing’ mental illness and psychological disability is often represented as an economic act which establishes the healer figure in a dual role as both destroyer of madness and restorer of economic stability. I begin this article by analysing Christ’s encounter with the madman possessed by the demon Legion, describing the dynamics between the impeccable healer and his wretched patient, and draw out the story’s economic undertones which, to my knowledge, have thus far escaped critical scrutiny. A similar narrative is embedded in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini or The Life of Merlin (c.1150). The trend is disrupted by Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It (1603), in which an attempt at healing becomes a battle between a self-appointed but flawed healer and one who is determined to cling to and take pride in his disability.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121485672","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":"Spectrality in Plutarch, Shakespeare, Freud and Derrida","authors":"N. Meihuizen","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Cassius’s exposition on the self-induced nature of visions, as presented in North’s Plutarch, is akin to Freud’s rational understanding of spectral visitations. Cassius’s consequent fall into superstitious thought is all the more notable. Shakespeare’s Brutus, in Julius Caesar , if not at the mercy of such mental swings as Cassius, is subject at one point in the play to a different type of indeterminacy, that regarding the nature of the future. On the day of the final battle he says: “O that a man might know/The end of this day’s business ere it come” (5.1.122–23). This “end”, however, is connected with the promised appearance of Caesar’s ghost. What does this future, containing both anticipated and unknown elements, mean to Brutus? Unlike the predictable future of everyday, this future (though involving the return of the ghost) cannot be prepared for, must remain unforeseen, as it depends on the fortunes of war. My article draws on Freud’s understanding of spectrality and Derrida’s linking of this to his sense of the unforeseen future, to examine Brutus’s relation to it, from the point of view of both classical antiquity’s daimonic lore and the dramatic sensibility of Shakespeare.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128736706","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: Shakespeare au risque de la philosophie","authors":"T. Voss","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.11","url":null,"abstract":"Book Title: Shakespeare au risque de la philosophie Book Authors: Pascale Drouet & Philippe Grosos (Eds.) Paris: Hermann, 2017.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116363637","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 centennial celebration of Guy Butler, Shakespeare scholar and teacher","authors":"P. Walters","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v32i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v32i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"This is a slightly revised version of the text of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa’s annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, delivered at Rhodes University in Grahamstown (now Makhanda) on 23 April 2018. It pays tribute to Guy Butler as Shakespeare scholar and teacher; the author shares his personal experience as a student before turning his attention to Butler’s work on King Lear .","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126362193","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}