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“All’s Well that Ends Welles”: Orson Welles and the “Voodoo” Macbeth
(Lodz University Press, 2016-04-22)
The Federal Theatre Project, which was established in 1935 to put unemployed Americans back to work after the Great Depression, and later employed over 10,000 people at its peak, financed one particularly original adaptation ...
Not Minding the Gap: Intercultural Shakespeare in Britain
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)
The article takes issue with the perceived space/gap between the multiple identities of mixed-heritage groups, as most of these people often pick and choose elements from all of their identities and amalgamate them into a ...
Some Japanese Shakespeare Productions in 2014-15
(Lodz University Press, 2016-12-30)
This essay focuses on some Shakespeare productions in Japan during 2014 and 2015. One is a Bunraku version of Falstaff, for which the writer himself wrote the script. It is an amalgamation of scenes from The Merry Wives ...
Translation as Rewriting: Cultural Theoretical Appraisal of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the Ewe language of West Africa
(Lodz University Press, 2019-01-03)
The cultural turn in translation theory brought attention to the idea that translation is not a purely linguistic phenomenon but one that is also constrained by culture. The cultural turn considers translation as a rewriting ...
What bloody film is this? Macbeth for our time
(Lodz University Press, 2019-01-03)
When Roman Polanski’s Macbeth hit the screens in 1971, its bloody imagery, pessimism, violence and nudity were often perceived as excessive or at least highly controversial. While the film was initially analysed mostly in ...
Kabbalah, "Dybbuks", and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of "Twin Peaks"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)
In the series Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, David Lynch and others create a mythological framework structured by and filtered through Shakespeare in a postsecular exploration of the posthuman. Twin Peaks exemplifies a cultural ...