Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance: Recent submissions
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The Enemy Other: Discourse of Evil in William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest"
(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"
(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
(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 ... -
Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa’s "The Bad Sleep Well" as a Modern "Hamlet"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Among Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira’s three Shakespeare films, Throne of Blood (1957), Ran (1985), and The Bad Sleep Well (1960), the latter has been relatively ignored in Anglophone Shakespeare criticism. This ... -
Taming the Glitter Ball: A Diagnosis of Shakespeare ‘for all time’—Sketched from South Africa
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Shakespeare travels the globe more variously and unpredictably than any other dramatist. In performance his texts have shown themselves hospitable to vastly different ideological interpretations. By making these two points, ... -
Naked Villany: The Fatal Attraction of Richard III and Donald Trump
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Although no longer American President, Donald Trump still manages to upstage the current administration. An explanation for his “sinister aesthetics”, to use Joel Elliot Slotkin’s concept, can be seemingly found in developing ... -
Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage
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Contributors
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In memoriam: Werner Habicht (29 January 1930 – 5 November 2022)
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Book Reviews
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Theatre Reviews
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Afterword: Posthumanism—Past, Present and Future
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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. ...