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- Title
Reconciling Shakespeare and indigeneity in Australia: star-cross'd communities and racial Tempests.
- Authors
Cox, Emma
- Abstract
Discusses the impact of the literary of playwright William Shakespeare on Australian theatrical contexts. Production of the drama "Romeo and Juliet" in 1999 by Brisbane, Queensland-based theatre companies La Boite Theatre and Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts; Observation of the historical and contemporary harnessing of Shakespearean texts into the service of European-imperialist cultural and political projects; Translation of the drama "The Tempest" to the late eighteenth-century Australian reality.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; THEATER; PERFORMING arts; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; DRAMA; TEMPEST, The (Play : Shakespeare); ROMEO &; Juliet (Play : Shakespeare)
- Publication
Australasian Drama Studies, 2004, Issue 44, p78
- ISSN
0810-4123
- Publication type
Article