Re-Contextualizing Shakespeare: 'Romeo and Juliet' in Manga

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2017-0023
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manga Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare space transmediation

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Andreea Șerban
West University of Timişoara, Romania

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A fairly new medium for westerners, manga joins the variety of already existing “shakespeares”, bringing a fresh and vivid perspective on some of the most famous Shakespearean plays. This paper discusses several representations of space, with a particular focus on the city (Verona), the Capulet ballroom, and Juliet‘s bedroom, as they are rendered by artists in three manga transmediations of Romeo and Juliet coming from different cultural contexts (British, American, and Japanese). The paper will also explore the ways in which the three cultures play with Shakespeare‘s original Italian setting and negotiate their influence over one another at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Șerban, A. “Re-Contextualizing Shakespeare: ’Romeo and Juliet’ in Manga”. Linguaculture, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2017, pp. 134-4, doi:10.1515/lincu-2017-0023.
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Author Biography

Andreea Șerban, West University of Timişoara, Romania

Andreea Ioana Şerban is Senior Lecturer at the West University of Timișoara, Romania. Her domains of expertise are Anglophone literatures, modern transmediations of William Shakespeare‘s works, gender and cultural studies. She holds an MA in British and American Studies and a PhD in Philology (with a thesis on the novels of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood) from the university where she currently teaches. Her publications include The Call of the Wild: M/Other Nature in Margaret Atwood‟s Novels (2010), book chapters in various thematic volumes, as well as a series of three volumes on the cultural history of England covering the Elizabethan, the Victorian and the modern periods, published in Romanian in 2010, 2012, and 2015 respectively.

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