Scotland with a Pinch of Westeros? The Case of Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth

• Authors: Piskorska, Agnieszka

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses the resemblance between Shakespeare’s play Macbeth and its cinematic adaptation directed by Justin Kurzel (2015) with respect to the image of Scotland in the geographical and historical sense. To this end, tools derived from translation studies are employed, such as the notion of intersemiotic translation, interpretive resemblance and interpretants. It is argued that alterations introduced in the adaptation are motivated by psychological reality and coherence of the plot, making the representation of medieval Scotland believable. In this respect, Kurzel’s production differs from many other cinematic versions of Macbeth, exploiting mostly the universality of the crime and madness motifs.

Keywords

EN

cinematic adaptation; interpretant; intersemiotic translation; relevance theory; resemblance

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 135-143

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Piskorska, Agnieszka

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.11

Biblioteka Nauki

888658