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{"title":"Book Review: A future-orientedhistory of Shakespeare in South Africa","authors":"M. de Waal","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v31i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v31i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121372481","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":"“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”: The drama and architecture of Shakespeare’s sonnets","authors":"M. van Wyk Smith","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v31i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v31i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124045975","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":"Petrarchism Demonised: Defiling chastity in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus","authors":"Kirsten Dey","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V31I1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V31I1.5","url":null,"abstract":"In The Two Gentlemen of Verona , The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus , Shakespeare responds to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England, exploring the darker reaches of Petrarchan devotion by way of creating demonic incarnations of the Petrarchan lover whose idealisation of their mistresses takes an extreme, sexual form, catalysing intimately invasive action such as rape or attempted rape. Through an attentive reading of the Petrarchan topoi used by the characters in these texts, this article argues that Shakespeare endeavoured to criticise the idealising force of Petrarchism by revealing its violent potential.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130906386","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: The Strange Couplings of Humour and Violence","authors":"Sandra Young","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V31I1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V31I1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Book Title: The Taming of the ShrewBook Author: dir. Tara NotcuttMaynardville Open-Air Theatre, January–February 2018","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308418","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":"Strong Precursors: Shakespeare in southern Africa and Shakespeare in Southern Africa, then and now","authors":"C. Thurman","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V31I1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V31I1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In January this year, South African academics and practitioners in the fields of literary studies, linguistics and education mourned the death of Stanley Ridge (1942–2018). Over the course of his thirty-year career at the University of the Western Cape – and a productive decade as emeritus professor – Stan was not only an esteemed teacher and a respected scholar, but also a cherished mentor to young researchers, writers, educationists and activists. He worked tirelessly in and through key institutions, including the National English Literary Museum, the National Language Body and the English Academy. Stan was ideally placed to review ISEA, 1964–2014: A South African Research Institute Serving People (2016), a collection of essays about the development of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa edited by current director Monica Hendricks. The history of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA) is closely connected to that of the ISEA, and I knew that readers of this journal would be interested in Laurence Wright’s chapter on the Society – along with other material in the book charting the development of “English studies” during the period in question. So I asked Stan if he would act as a reviewer; characteristically, he agreed to do it without delay. But a short time later he passed away. Re-reading Wright’s essay in this context, I became overwhelmed by a sense of gratitude and admiration – mixed with a substantial measure of humility and perhaps even a hint of shame – as I thought about the work of ‘those who came before’ (and, in some instances, ‘those who have gone before us’). There are a number of figures who, like Stanley Ridge, dedicated themselves to furthering cultural and educational causes such as the Shakespeare Society. As a young Shakespearean, it was I suppose necessary for me in some Freudian sense to distance myself from the work of academics and ‘amateurs’ alike through organisations like SSOSA – not to dismiss it, but perhaps to view it with a certain amount of scepticism, or at least to imagine myself as one who might have been sympatico with critics of the Society at the time of its founding in the torrid final years of apartheid. Such critics were acknowledged by Guy Butler in his editorial for the first volume of Shakespeare in Southern Africa, published the year after SOSSA was established:","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126009597","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 and Marx Revisited","authors":"T. Voss","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v31i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v31i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Book Title: Shakespeare and Marx Book Author:  Gabriel Egan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114569784","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":"“Gods by Office”: The ruler in Measure for Measure","authors":"E. R. Freed","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V31I1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V31I1.3","url":null,"abstract":"King James I’s Basilikon Doron and The Trewe Law of Free Monarchies, originally published in Edinburgh, were reprinted in London in the year of his coronation there (1603). This essay explores the relationship between these two treatises on government and the ruler in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, the first of his ‘Jacobean’ plays. Maintaining the absolutist principle of divine right, James emphasised that “Monarchie is the trew paterne of Diuinitie”. At his coronation, the Bishop of Winchester examined this view in his sermon: “Princes cannot be Gods by nature, being framed of the same metal, and in the same moulde, that others are; It folweth directly, they are gods by Office...” Comparing Nature to the striker of coins in the mint – a traditional image – the Bishop asserted that however god-like the secular power of a prince, by nature he is merely a fallible creature of flesh and blood. Basilikon Doron designates “False coine” an “unpardonable” crime. The processes involved in reproducing a coin appear repeatedly in the imagery of Measure for Measure. “Coining” – Nature’s plenitude – is linked to the concept of “temperance” or “moderation”, the “measure” of the play’s title. James declares this his “cardinal rule” for kingship in Basilikon Doron. In Measure for Measure Shakespeare has constructed its exact opposite, pitting the extreme ascetic zeal of Isabella against that falsely professed by Angelo. Subverting the notion of absolute authority, Shakespeare’s final synthesis suggests that the good ruler will understand human frailty and treat it with compassion.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123256777","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":"Three decades of the Shakespeare Society of southern Africa: 1986–2016","authors":"L. Wright","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V31I1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V31I1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Under the title “‘In states unborn and accents yet unknown’: Shakespeare and the ISEA”, this essay first appeared as a chapter in ISEA, 1964-2014: A South African Research Institute Serving People, edited by Monica Hendricks (Grahamstown: NISC, 2016). The Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) was founded by Guy Butler at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, in 1964. Among its many undertakings were several development projects for the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, established in 1986. The article describes the context in which the Society was formed and provides an overview of key activities undertaken in collaboration with the Institute during the course of its first three decades. The piece also reflects more generally on the social, cultural, educational and political history of Shakespeare in South Africa, asking: “Will Shakespeare continue to thrive in South Africa?” The piece has been lightly revised.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129160600","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":"Encountering Dancing Shakespeare/s: José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane, Dada Masilo’s the bitter end of rosemary and Gregory Maqoma and Helge Letonja’s OUT OF JOINT","authors":"Lliane Loots","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v31i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v31i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages with three contemporary dance works, each representing a different Shakespearean encounter. Its starting point is Modernist American choreographer Jose Limon’s The Moor’s Pavane (1949), a seminal (and perhaps now iconic) instance of a choreographer negotiating narrative: Shakespeare’s Othello . It then discusses two contemporary and localised South African dance works that also ‘encounter’ Shakespeare: Dada Masilo’s the bitter end of rosemary (2010), in which a choreographer/dancer negotiates character (Ophelia); and the recent transnational work of Gregory Maqoma and Helge Letonja, OUT OF JOINT (2017), in which the choreographers respond to an idea derived from a ‘poetic’ Shakespeare. Shakespeare is navigated and ‘encountered’ by these selected choreographers in differing contexts as a type of intertextual – and embodied – site of recognition for making meaning. The article explores the intricacies of intertextual dialogue between a literary Shakespeare, choreography and the dancing body. It considers the layered potential for Shakespeare/s to be a site of localised and contemporary embodiment: a trigger or a touch point for contemporary dance-makers that allows ‘Shakespeare’ to be viewed as a dialectic, a space of tensions and revisions. This is framed by the author’s own ‘encounters’ with Shakespeare as a South African.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115708135","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":"To play is the thing: (re)imagining Shakespeare on a post-colonial stage","authors":"T. Meskin","doi":"10.4314/sisa.v30i1.8s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v30i1.8s","url":null,"abstract":"What would happen if Shakespeare were to appear in our contemporary South Africa? How would he respond? And what might he say about how his works have been rendered in the 400 years since his death? These questions were the catalyst for The Past is Prologue , a production devised and presented at the #SHAKESPEAREmustFALL? Festival at UKZN in 2016. The Festival offered a space to engage with Shakespeare through the lens of postcolonialism in order to interrogate the position of his works in a contemporary South African context. This engagement, I believe, must be through the performance – as opposed to the literary – text, and must ‘play’ with Shakespeare’s works without fear or awe; such an approach liberates the plays, taking them from their pedestals of high art and stripping them of their elitist status, thus allowing them to speak to, and for, us. In this paper, I adopt a self-study methodology to reflect on my own practice as the deviser and director of The Past is Prologue , examining my thinking in the genesis of the project, the development of the text, and the production itself, in order to grapple with the complex debates around Shakespeare in a post-apartheid, post-colonial word. One way we might ‘decolonise’ Shakespeare is, through play, to inscribe his works with (re)imagined meanings that can speak to the ethos of our time; in so doing, we might ‘resurrect’ a Shakespeare for the 21 st century, and find in his ‘insubstantial pageants’ profound resonances of ourselves.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126095395","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}