Identity and Gender Politics in Contemporary Shakespearean Rewriting: Julia Pascal’s The Yiddish Que...
Identity and Gender Politics in Contemporary Shakespearean Rewriting: Julia Pascal’s The Yiddish Queen Lear
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Amsterdam: Berghahn Books
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English
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Julia Pascal’s The Yiddish Queen Lear, a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, merges racial identity politics with gender politics as the play both traces the history of the Yiddish theatre and offers a feminist criticism of Shakespeare’s text. The use of Lear as a source text for a play about Jews illustrates that contemporary Jewish en...
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Identity and Gender Politics in Contemporary Shakespearean Rewriting: Julia Pascal’s The Yiddish Queen Lear
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2678535415
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2678535415
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0014-3006
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1752-2323,0014-3006
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10.3167/ej.2018.510226
