Virality, Slipperiness and Challenges: Adaptation Studies and/on the Contemporary Anglophone Stage: A Critical Review of Graham Saunders. 2017. Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: “Upstart Crows.” London: Palgrave Macmillan. xi + 194 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-44452-3, Catherine Rees. 2017. Adaptation and Nation: Theatrical Contexts for Contemporary English and Irish Drama. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ix + 185 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-42586-7 and Kara Reilly, ed. 2018. Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xxix + 357 pp. ISBN: 978-1-349-95580-0.

Maria Elena Capitani

doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.13

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Maria Elena Capitani Università degli Studi di Parma

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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.13

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A Critical Review of Graham Saunders. 2017. Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: “Upstart Crows.” London: Palgrave Macmillan. xi + 194 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-44452-3, Catherine Rees. 2017. Adaptation and Nation: Theatrical Contexts for Contemporary English and Irish Drama. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ix + 185 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-42586-7 and Kara Reilly, ed. 2018. Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xxix + 357 pp. ISBN: 978-1-349-95580-0.

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Maria Elena Capitani, Università degli Studi di Parma

Maria Elena Capitani was awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus by the University of Parma in 2016. In 2014 and 2015 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Barcelona and Reading. She teaches Anglophone literatures and history of English culture at Parma and is currently working on her first monograph, Contemporary British Appropriations of Greek and Roman Tragedies: The Politics of Rewriting, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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