• Theatre Reviews 

  Mitsui, Takehito; Georgopoulou, Xenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Book Reviews 

  Xie, Guixia; Laskowska-Hinz, Sabina; Motohashi, Ted; Tang, Jie; Wang, Yuying (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Utopia, Arcadia and the Forest of Arden 

  Paterson, Ronan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  In Utopia (1516) Thomas More created a humorous world with a serious purpose. His invented republic was a place where existing conventions and structures did not exist, allowing the positing of alternatives. The creation ...

• “Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company:” the American Performance of Shakespeare and the White-Washing of Political Geography 

  Meyer, John M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The paper examines the spatial overlap between the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the performance of William Shakespeare’s plays in the United States. In America, William Shakespeare seems to function as a ...

• Staging Dystopian Communities: Reimagining Shakespeare in Selected English Plays 

  Lachman, Michał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  Among the countless afterlives of William Shakespeare’s playwriting there is a strong presence of his visions of state and political powers. In universal, philosophical ways Shakespeare was addressing issues concerning the ...

• From Race and Orientalism in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Caste and Indigenous Otherness on the Indian Screen 

  Jayakumar, Archana (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The article discusses an Indian film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream entitled 10ml Love (dir. Sharat Katariya, 2012). There is little scholarship on 10ml Love, which has been studied ...

• Transformative Potential and Utopian Performative: Postdramatic Hamlet in Turkey 

  İzmir, Sibel (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  Turkey is among those Non-Anglophone countries which have had a keen interest in Shakespeare and his plays for over two hundred years. When it comes to the staging of Shakespeare in Turkey, especially when protagonists or ...

• “Hopeful feeling[s]:” Utopian Shakespeares and the 2021 Reopening of British Theatres 

  Hawkins, Rowena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  This article focuses on a specific moment in recent British theatre history: the late spring of 2021 when theatres reopened after a prolonged period of closure that had been enforced during the first waves of the Coronavirus ...

• “To Make Dark Heaven Light:” Transcending the Tragic in Sintang Dalisay 

  Alegre, Anne Nichole A. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  Directed by Ricardo Abad and choreographed by Matthew Santamaria, Sintang Dalisay—a Filipino adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet—is often lauded for its use of the igal ethnic dance of the Sama-Badjau, a Muslim tribe ...

• An Interview with Stratis Panourios 

  Panourios, Stratis; Cieślak, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Introduction: “With Such Perfection: ” Imagining Utopia through Shakespeare 

  Bemudez Brataas, Delilah; Cieślak, Magdalena ; Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Contributors 

  Bemudez Brataas, Delilah; Cieślak, Magdalena ; Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Theatre Reviews 

  Golemi, Marinela; Georgopoulou, Xenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

• Book Reviews 

  Iwata, Miki; Galland, Nora; Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica; Xia, Yanhua (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

• Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues 

  Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  This essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania. I examine travelogues and geography ...

• Writing and Rewriting Nationhood: "Henry V" and Political Appropriation of Shakespeare 

  Minami, Hikaru (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  Shakespeare’s Henry V is often regarded as a nationalistic play and has been appropriated for political spin and propaganda to enhance the sense of national unity. Shakespeare captures the emerging nationalistic feeling ...

• From Casket to Court via Mercy and the Ring: Commemorating Shakespeare’s Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" 

  Tripathy, Mitashree (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  Shakespeare’s comedies mark his artistic excellence in the portrayal of woman characters. Shakespearean women have invariably moved the audience and their understanding towards them from being sweet and mawkish to expressing ...

• The Enemy Other: Discourse of Evil in William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" 

  Abu-Shomar, Ayman (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  Caliban, the ‘enemy Other’ of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a character that allows further investigations of the colonial ideology in its earliest forms; locating ‘evil’ forces outside the continent of Europe and ...

• The Poetics of Body: Representing Cultural Imaginations in Yang Jung-Ung’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" 

  Choi, Boram (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  This article explores the psychology that motivates Yang Jung-Ung and his actors in the process of translating Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a Korean style. By focusing on the ways of showing the theme of ...

• "Hamlet", "Macbeth", Anantanarayanan’s "The Silver Pilgrimage" and A Touch of Occidentalism 

  Kaul, Mythili (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)

  The article focuses on an encounter with Shakespeare in an unusual place, a novel set in medieval India, where Shakespeare is viewed and assessed by an Indian audience, by Indian listeners, through principles of classical ...

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