Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance: Ostatnio dodane
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“You have served me well:" The Shakespeare Empire in Central Europe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Shakespeare has often served as an instrument of cultural colonialism. In this essay I argue that the current practice of Shakespeare studies in many ways replicates this pattern. By priming the discourse through Shakespeare, ... -
Monsters and Marvels: Shakespeare Across Opera, Ballet, Dance, Puppetry, and Music in Central and Eastern Europe—and Beyond
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)This collectively authored position paper discusses “hybrid” Shakespeares in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on productions that offer formal experimentation and transnational perspectives. While their contexts remain ... -
“…noxiousness of my work:” Miroslav Macháček’s 1971 "Henry V" at the Normalized National Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The essay focuses on the 1971 production of William Shakespeare’s rarely staged historical drama Henry V, directed by Czech director Miroslav Macháček at the Prague National Theatre in a new translation by Czech literary ... -
Politics, Shakespeare, East-Central Europe: Theatrical Border Crossings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)This essay discusses how productions of Shakespeare’s plays that transcend various geographical, national, and linguistic boundaries have influenced the theatrical-political discourse in East-Central Europe in the twenty-first ... -
Popular and Populist Shakespearean Transcreations in Central and Eastern Europe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The article discusses the variety of ways in which the terms “popular” or “populist” could be associated with postwar Shakespearean transcreations in the Central and Eastern European region, pointing out how performers and ... -
Contributors
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Introduction: East-Central and Central-East Europe as an Imagined Space for Shakespeare
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The publication of the issue was supported by the International Visegrad Fund, project no. 22210007, titled “Crossing Borders with Shakespeare since 1945: Central and Eastern European Roots and Routes.” The project is ... -
Our Common Home: Eastern Europe / Central Europe / Post-Communist Europe as Signifiers of Cultural-Political Geographies and Identities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The article discusses the historical mutability and political connotations of the geographical signifiers Eastern and Central Europe, and the chronotope Post-Soviet / Post-Communist Europe. It considers the tensions present ... -
Book Reviews
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Theatre Reviews
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From Metaphor to Metonym: Shakespearean Recognition in the United States University
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)This essay historicizes the Shakespeare curriculum at UC Berkeley’s English department over the last one hundred years. An elite research university in the United States, UC Berkeley’s extensive course offerings have ... -
“Not For An Age, But For All Time:” Autobiography and a Re-origin of Shakespeare Studies in Canada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)Despite independence as a country, Canada belongs to the Commonwealth and has deep colonial roots and the British educational system was key in creating Canadian curricula. Given the centrality of Shakespeare’s work in the ... -
Activist Discourse and the Origins of Feminist Shakespeare Studies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Developing an informal method in which the voice of the female critic rallies ... -
“Shakespeare is a Finnish national poet:” Developing Finnish Shakespeare Scholarship from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)In this article, I will take up the idea of “origins” as it pertains to Finnish Shakespeare during Finland’s time as an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia from 1809-1917. While not technically the beginning of Shakespearean ... -
Competing for Supremacy: The Origins of Shakespeare Studies in Japan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)This paper reveals that Shakespeare studies in Japan originated through competing notions of literary studies. Traditional Japanese ideas about literature differed markedly from Anglophone ones, which focused on grammatical ... -
Turkish Shakespeare Studies: An Origins Story
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)Shakespeare is among the most important non-Turkish authors in Turkey and has become an indispensable part of the theatre repertory and the educational curricula. Yet, the origins of Shakespeare studies have a complicated ... -
Shakespeare Studies in Iran: The British Knight for Persia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)Shakespeare’s travels into Persia started in the middle of the nineteenth century when modern socio-political forces and the need for a powerful army were fomenting important changes in the traditional structure of government, ... -
Publishing Shakespeare in India: Macmillan’s English Classics and the Aftereffects of a Colonial Education
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)India’s rejection of Macmillan’s English Classics series constitutes an important counter-origin that exposes and dismantles underlying assumptions about how colonial Indian readers valued and consumed Shakespeare. In this ... -
Shakespeare Comes to Bengal
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)India has the longest engagement with Shakespeare of any non-Western country. In the eastern Indian region of Bengal, contact with Shakespeare began in the eighteenth century. His plays were read and acted in newly established ... -
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 ...