- Title
- Shakespeare in South Africa: Alpha and ‘Omega’
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7029
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007216
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1368879042000210595
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- [Author's note]: This piece offers a discursive foray into some leading features of South African Shakespeare, framed between two symbolic ‘book-ends’: the first authenticated Shakespearean production which took place in Cape Town in 1801 (‘Alpha’), and a recent groundbreaking, multilingual version of Julius Caesar which premiered in 2001(“‘Omega’”). Focusing mainly on acts of translation, literal and cultural, the article follows a trajectory from colonial origins to explore some of the adaptive travail experienced by the Shakespeare text as it infiltrates, contests, melds into and sometimes illuminates a South African culture both potentially (and actually) very different from the colonial culture of, say, Australia or New Zealand. The article includes a brief prospectus for the future.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Postcolonial Studies, Wright, L.S. (2004) Shakespeare in South Africa: alpha and 'omega'. Postcolonial Studies, 7 (1). pp. 63-81, Postcolonial Studies volume 7 number 1 63 81 2004 type="issn">1466-1888
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Postcolonial Studies Self-archiving Policy
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