• "Channeling Hamlet"

    Author(s):
    Sujata Iyengar (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC Shakespeare
    Subject(s):
    Intermediality, Podcasts, Metaphor, Bilingualism
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Conf. Title:
    Theatre Technologies Crossing Borders, Past to Present
    Conf. Org.:
    Theatre Without Borders
    Conf. Loc.:
    remote and in NYU Florence
    Conf. Date:
    June 2021
    Tag(s):
    Audio theatre, Bilingual theater, broadcast theatre, podcast comedy, Shakespearean adaptation, Adaptation
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jnjp-cd22
    Abstract:
    This paper, “Channeling Hamlet,” considers how audio Shakespeares such as radio broadcasts mean differently: when remediated as an a digital recording of Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet in a storied broadcast from 1948 (the so-called “entirety” Hamlet), a later recording (1957) of Gielgud’s Hamlet with the cast of the Old Vic on vinyl LP, or some of the Hamlet podcasts popular just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Conor Hanratty’s “The Hamlet podcast,” or irreverent comedy programs such as (excuse my language, I’m quoting) “Fuckbois of Literature,” or the Seattle Shakespeare Company’s bilingual digital audio play of Hamlet from 2020. In particular I am interested in three particular aspects of these Hamlet-adjacent audio experiences: 1) the metaphor of the broadcast versus the podcast 2) how these performances understand textual “fidelity” 3) how they remediate or whether they remediate visual aspects of performance, such as costume, gesture, blocking and so forth using only sound, and to what extent the new medium comments upon or critiques its prior medium (the process known as intermediality).
    Notes:
    Taken from a chapter of the forthcoming "Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory" (Bloomsbury, under contract).
    Metadata:
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    Status:
    Scheduled
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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