• The Readers of 17th-Century English Manuscript Commonplace Book Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden 

  Hao, Tianhu (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a 17th-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections. The readers of Hesperides generally combine reading and thinking, or reading and writing. ...

• Theatre Reviews 

  Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

• Book Reviews 

  Cieślak, Magdalena; Chiba, Jessica (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

• In-MeMoriaM < Dr. Vicente Forés López > 

  Saiz Molina, Jose (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

• The Medievalism of Emotions in King Lear 

  Czarnowus, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  King Lear exemplifies two cultures of feeling, the medieval and the early modern one. Even though the humoral theory lay at the heart of the medieval and the early modern understanding of emotions, there was a sudden change ...

• ‘How can you say to me I am a King?’: New Historicism and its (Re)interpretations of the Design of Kingly Figures in Shakespeare’s History Plays 

  Dale, James (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  The 1980’s saw the emergence of New Historicist criticism, particularly through Stephen Greenblatt’s work. Its legacy remains influential, particularly on Shakespearean Studies. I wish to outline New Historicist methodological ...

• Individualization and Oedipalization in Reza Servati’s Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: An Expressionist Reworking 

  Javidshad, Mahdi (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  This article investigates Reza Servati’s Macbeth, an Iranian prize-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to discuss the way the adaptor prunes the source text aiming at presenting his distinctive reading of Shakespeare’s ...

• The Inverted Initiation Rituals in Shakespeare with a Special Emphasis on Hamlet 

  Wicher, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  The article deals the possibility of applying Vladimir Propp’s, basically anthropological idea of “the inverted ritual” to the interpretation of certain plays by William Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. The said inversion ...

• The Shakespeare Brand in Contemporary “Fair Verona” 

  Oggiano, Eleonora (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  The idea that Shakespeare belongs to the world is certainly not new. From the beginning of his afterlife as a dramatist two issues have been consistently put forward by his contemporaries: 1) his art’s universality—for Ben ...

• From Social Justice to Metaphor: The Whitening of Othello in the Russian Imagination 

  Khomenko, Natalia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention to racial conflict, this play came to symbolize, for Soviet ...

• Crossings with Jatra: Bengali Folk-theatre Elements in a Transcultural Representation of Lady Macbeth 

  Dutta Gupta, Aabrita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  This paper examines a transcultural dance-theatre focusing on Lady Macbeth, through the lens of eastern Indian Bengali folk-theatre tradition, jatra. The wide range of experimentation with Shakespeare notwithstanding, the ...

• Performing Calibanesque Baptisms: Shakespearean Fractals of British Indian History 

  Chatterjee, Arup K. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  This paper uncovers new complexity for Shakespearean studies in examining three anecdotes overlooked in related historiography—the first Indian baptism in Britain, that of Peter Pope, in 1616, and its extrapolation in ...

• Four-Character Idioms and the Rhetoric of Japanese Shakespeare Translation 

  Gallimore, Daniel (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  Yoji jukugo are idioms comprised of four characters (kanji) that can be used to enhance the textuality of a Japanese Shakespeare translation, whether in response to Shakespeare’s rhetoric or as compensation for the tendency ...

• The Domestication and Arabization of the Bard: Towards the Reception of Shakespeare in the Arab World 

  Hassoon, Mohammed Naser (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

  Since Najib al-Haddad and Tanyusʻ Abdu’s first Arabic versions of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet at the end of the 19th century, the reception of Shakespeare in the Arab world has gone through a process of adaptation, ...

• From the Editor 

  Kujawińska Courtney, Krystyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

• Contributors 

  Kujawińska Courtney, Krystyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)

• Book Reviews 

  Wu, Yarong; Ringler-Pascu, Eleonora; Oshima, Hisao; Cui, Mengtian; Heijes, Coen (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)

• Theatre Reviews 

  Pilla, Eleni; Georgopoulou, Xenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)

• Transversal Connections: The Cervantes Quatercentenary in Spain and its Comparison with “Shakespeare Lives” 

  Gregor, Keith (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)

  Taking as its cue the 2016 quatercentenaries of the deaths of both Shakespeare and Cervantes, the essay offers some insights into the “transversal connections” between both events as celebrated in Spain and the UK. The ...

• “I fear I am not in my perfect mind.” Jan Klata’s King Lear and the Crisis of Europe 

  Cieślak, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)

  In his Shakespearean productions Jan Klata tends to radically experiment with sets, texts, and contexts. He puts the plays in culturally and politically specific locations, experiments with bi- or multilingual productions, ...

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