caa a22 4500 388094028 CHVBK 20180307125259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X0001304X doi S0266464X0001304X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X0001304X Massai Sonia Stage over Study: Charles Marowitz, Edward Bond, and Recent Materialist Approaches to Shakespeare [Elektronische Daten] [Sonia Massai] The flurry of Shakespearean adaptations in the 1960s and 1970s represents a significant yet largely neglected chapter of recent cultural history. This article assesses two of the more enduring adaptations - Edward Bond's Lear (Royal Court Theatre, 1971) and Charles Marowitz's Measure for Measure (Open Space Theatre, 1975) - in order to show how these controversial texts anticipated later mainstream critical approaches which still affect our reception of Shakespeare in the late 1990s. Several parallels between Marowitz and Bond's adaptations and recent materialist readings of their Shakespearean sources suggest that the adaptors anticipated the critics, and that both sought meaning from their Shakespearean originals by focusing on certain aspects of the text and by disregarding others. By demonstrating that whilst Marowitz and Bond's adaptations should best be regarded as a form of stage-centred criticism, Sonia Massai suggests that literary critical approaches inevitably reflect an arbitrary and historically determined appropriation of the Shakespearean original. Sonia Massai is a Lecturer in English Studies at St. Mary's, Strawberry Hill, a College of the University of Surrey. She has published articles on Shakespearean adaptations in Studies in English Literature, Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, and in a special issue of Textus: English Studies in Italy. She is currently collaborating with Jacques Berthoud on the New Penguin edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 247-255 0266-464X 15:3<247 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0001304X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0001304X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Massai Sonia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 247-255 0266-464X 15:3<247 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge