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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 ...
Performing Protest in Cross-Cultural Spaces: Paul Robeson and Othello
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)
When the famous African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson played the lead in Shakespeare’s Othello in London in 1930, tickets were in high demand during the production’s first week. The critical response, however, was ...
Introduction: Shakespeare in Cross-Cultural Spaces
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)
An Interview with Karen Raber: Reflections on Posthumanist Shakespeares
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)
Introduction: Jan Kott and Posthumanist Entanglements
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)
“Forward and Backward”: Actants and Agency in Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)
This essay presents a posthumanist reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, two plays which feature a scientist/magus who attempts to control his environment through personal agency. After detailing ...
The Institutionalization of Shakespeare Studies in the United Kingdom
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)
This essay is devoted to Shakespearean criticism in the UK between 1920 and 1940. I begin by examining the origins of Shakespeare study at Oxford and Cambridge, by figures such as I. A. Richards (1929) and William Empson ...