Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance: Recent submissions
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Jan Kott is Dead, Long Live to the ˂“Hybrid”˃ Critic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This article is a little tribute that a drama teacher, an editor and translator and a lecturer in English Literature would like to contribute to this Special Issue in Honour of Professor Dr Jan Kott, the most influential ... -
Facial Recognition and Posthuman Technologies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural and personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern and the ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders and ... -
Superhero Shakespeare in Golden Age Comics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Albert Lewis Kanter launched Classic Comics in 1941, a series of comic books that retold classic literature for a young audience. Five of Shakespeare’s celebrated plays appear in the collection. The popularity of Classics ... -
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity”: Compassion and the Nonhuman in Richard III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)When Lady Anne accuses Richard of cruelty in the wooing scene of act one in Richard III, she claims that even the fiercest beast will demonstrate some degree of pity. Her attempt to categorize Richard as somehow both less ... -
“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 ... -
An Unexpected Journey “from the naves to the chops”: “Macbeth”, Animal Trade, and Theatrical Experience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper proposes to appreciate the play’s butcheries as an incision into the unstable character of the category of the human. The vividness of the “strange images of death” is thus analysed with reference to the cultural ... -
Horrible Imaginings: Jan Kott, the Grotesque, and “Macbeth, Macbeth”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Throughout Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary, a keyword for the combination of philosophical, aesthetic and modern qualities in Shakespearean drama is “grotesque.” This term is also relevant to other influential ... -
The Myth of Total Shakespeare: Filmic Adaptation and Posthuman Collaboration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The convergence of textuality and multimedia in the twenty-first century signals a profound shift in early modern scholarship as Shakespeare’s text is no longer separable from the diffuse presence of Shakespeare on film. ... -
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 ... -
An Interview with Karen Raber: Reflections on Posthumanist Shakespeares
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Introduction: Jan Kott and Posthumanist Entanglements
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Theatre Reviews
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Revisiting the Classics and the New Media Environments: Shakespeare Re-Told by Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood and Edward St. Aubyn
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The versatility of the appropriation of Shakespeare in recent years has been witnessed in a variety of registers and media, which range from special effects on the stage, music, cartoons, comics, advertisements, all the ... -
On a Romantic Island: Shakespeare and Mamma mia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper concerns the blockbuster musical film Mamma mia, loosely using some of Shakespearean patterns, topoi and plots. Set on a small Greek island, idylic and exotic, the film offers a contemporary romantic story with ... -
Shakespeare across the Taiwan Strait: A Developmental Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Shakespeare studies in Mainland China and Taiwan evolved from the same origin during the two centuries after Shakespeare being introduced into China in the early nineteenth century. Although Shakespeare was first seen on ... -
Book Reviews
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“I should like to have my name talked of in China”: Charles Lamb, China, and Shakespeare
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare played an essential role in Chinese reception history of Shakespeare. The first two adaptations in China,Xiewai qitan 澥外奇譚and Yinbian yanyu 吟邊燕語, chose Tales as the source ... -
The Development of Marxist Shakespearean Criticism in China
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Chinese Shakespearean criticism from Marxist perspectives is highly original in Chinese Shakespeare studies. Scholars such as Mao Dun, Yang Hui, Zhao Li, Fang Ping, Yang Zhouhan, Bian Zhilin, Meng Xianqiang, Sun Jiaxiu, ... -
Theatre Strikes Back in the Digital Era: An Interview with Stephan Wolfert
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this edited interview, Stephan Wolfert, American actor and playwright, talks about his pluri-awarded play, Cry Havoc, a one-man show he has been performing since 2012 with several variations through the years; the play ... -
Hamlet, or about Death: A Romanian Hamlet directed by Vlad Mugur (2001)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This essay looks at the 2001 Romanian production of Hamlet directed by Vlad Mugur at the Cluj National Theatre (Romania) from the perspective of geocriticism and spatial literary studies, analysing the stage space opened ...