{"title":"A midsummer night's raiders : theatre reviews","authors":"Donald Powers","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71892","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It would be a mistake to think that one needs to reread A Midsummer Night's Dream before watching the latest offering in Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen's \"Raiders\" series: a mistake because this production is not the Ellenbogens' reply to a favourite Shakespearean comedy but a playful and creative misreading of all of Shakespeare. That is to say, the Ellenbogens ostensibly take all of Shakespeare - his plays, his sonnets, his person - as their text, but it would be more accurate to say that Shakespeare serves as a pretext or sustained excuse for an exhibition of Raiders humour.","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71892","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It would be a mistake to think that one needs to reread A Midsummer Night's Dream before watching the latest offering in Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen's "Raiders" series: a mistake because this production is not the Ellenbogens' reply to a favourite Shakespearean comedy but a playful and creative misreading of all of Shakespeare. That is to say, the Ellenbogens ostensibly take all of Shakespeare - his plays, his sonnets, his person - as their text, but it would be more accurate to say that Shakespeare serves as a pretext or sustained excuse for an exhibition of Raiders humour.
如果认为在观看尼古拉斯和卢克·艾伦伯根(Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen)的最新作品《夺宝奇兵》(Raiders)系列之前，需要重读《仲夏夜之梦》，那就错了:因为这部作品不是艾伦伯根夫妇对最喜爱的莎士比亚喜剧的回应，而是对莎士比亚所有作品的戏谑和创造性误读。也就是说，艾伦伯根们表面上把莎士比亚的全部——他的戏剧、十四行诗、他本人——作为他们的文本，但更准确的说法是，莎士比亚只是一个借口，或者是一个持续的借口，来展示“突袭者”式的幽默。
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