Recurring Elements of The Macbeth Mythos

<P align=left><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This article starts off from a distinction between an Aristotelian and a semiotic understanding of art to analyse the lines of continuity between a sourcetext and its adaptations. Thus, it contrasts Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Ángel-Luis Pujante’s Spanish translation of the play, to Welcome Msomi’s stage adaptation (</FONT></FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">uMabatha</FONT></FONT><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">), and to two film adaptations by Akira Kurosawa (</FONT></FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Kumonos jô</FONT></FONT><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">) and Billy Morrissette (</FONT></FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Scotland, PA</FONT></FONT><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">), to examine the persistence of the </FONT></FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">mythos </FONT></FONT><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(or Aristotelian plot) in the adaptation process and question the extent to which the Shakespearean play is still available if the sourcetext is effaced. It explores the mechanisms of repetition/reproduction and difference/transformation of the adaptation process, and defends a relationship of cultural codependency between sourcetext and adaptation.</FONT></FONT></I></P>

Bound East for Exile:The Case of Claude-Alexandre Bonneval alias Ahmet Pash

<P>&nbsp;</P> <P align=left><I><FONT size=1 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=1 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Count Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval (1675-1747), turned, after conversion to Islam, </FONT><FONT size=3>Ahmet Pasha, is an exciting case of self-assumed exile with imbroglios involving the big powers of the </FONT><FONT size=3>day (Venice, Austria, Turkey, France) in the background. The politico-diplomatic and military </FONT><FONT size=3>components of these relations were far from alien to his personal life and public career. His </FONT><FONT size=3>(spurious) Memoirs do not simply raise auctorial doubts. They host material of genuine interest for </FONT><FONT size=3>the analyst of cultural identity/ies and of the imagological threads that go into their making. This </FONT><FONT size=3>paper deals with the long symbolic exile experienced by an exciting character subject to public </FONT><FONT size=3>metamorphoses. It also looks into the everyday observed by his interested eye spying customs, values, </FONT><FONT size=3>protocols and practices of the Western and Eastern cultures in which he lived.</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>