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Ideological Appropriation: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Moravec, Jaromír ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Znojemská, Helena (referee)
This master's thesis is concerned with the appropriative and adaptational afterlife of William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus. Particularly with the reasons for and strategies behind appropriative efforts from contradicting ideological movements. Appropriative adaptations of the play appeared already within the first hundred years after Shakespeare's passing with the first being Nahum Tate's The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth which recontextualises Shakespeare's text to support the cause of the Abhorrers during the Exclusion Crisis. Then, less than forty years later, John Dennis wrote his adaptation The Invader of His Country which represents the adapted text as supporting the Whigs in opposition of the Stuarts, who threatened to return on the English Throne with the support of foreign armies. This chapter's analysis seeks to establish the appropriative strategies that allowed single text to be claimed by two opposing political camps. That knowledge is then applied in the next chapter which focuses on the interwar period during which was Shakespeare claimed by a number of contradicting ideologies making their way on the political spectrum in the wake of the fall of a number of Europe's monarchies. This chapter is primarily focused on interpretative texts rather than on dramatic rewrites. These...
The Madness of Adaptation: Analysis of Film Adaptations of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III and The History Boys
Moravec, Jaromír ; Pilný, Ondřej (advisor) ; Wallace, Clare (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on adaptation processes present in the transfer of Alan Bennett's plays The Madness of George III and The History Boys from stage to film. The former was considered a mediocre play but its film adaptation can be found on the British Film Institute's list of the country's greatest films while the latter is a critically acclaimed play but its adaptation received mixed reviews and is generally seen as inferior to the stage version. This thesis is to determine why did the two adaptation processes bear such different results despite the same creative team being responsible for both of them. Both processes are first analysed separately, with the analysis of the changes made to The Madness of George III is primarily focused on separate characters and aspects of the story while the changes present in the film version of The History Boys are primarily examined chronologically as the play's first and second half were adapted differently for the screen. After the analysis, both processes are compared. The analysed changes made to The Madness of King George contain a largely condensed and efficient opening, the King, who is cemented as an active protagonist, Capt. Greville, a minor character used to highlight a theme of cold efficiency being favoured in court over empathy, the...

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