AN OVERVIEW ON FEMINISM AND SHAKESPEARE

Abstract

There are many ways in which both the practice and the effects of adaptation and appropriation intersect and interrelate, yet it is equally important to maintain some clear distinctions between them as creative activities. An adaptation signals relationships with an informing source text or original; a cinematic version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, On the other hand, appropriation frequently affects a more decisive journey away from the informing source into a wholly new cultural product and domain. This may or may not involve a generic shift, and it may still require the intellectual juxtaposition of (at least) one text against another that we have suggested is central to the reading and spectating experience of adaptations. But the appropriated text or texts are not always as clearly signalled or acknowledged as in the adaptive process. The main rationale of the study is to distinction between appropriation and adaptation will be the distinction between using Shakespeare to explain the world and using the world to explain Shakespeare.

Keywords: Shakespeare, Feminism, Intellectual, Adaption, Appropriation