• Teaching Psychomachia in The Castle of Perseverance 

  Spyra, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• O VENICE! By Borys Fynkelshteyn 

  Drozdovskyi, Dmytro (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• Café Zelig: A Seniors’ Hangout and a Whole Lot of History 

  Crust, John (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• Tanja Cummings’ Line 41: A Reflection 

  Crust, John (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• Shakespearean Doubling: Issues of Action, Theme and Stage Presence 

  Cotterill, Rowland (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• Introduction 

  Rasmus, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

• Them and Us – Pintér Béla’s Blood-Red, Off-White, Dark Green and András Urbán’s Sacra Hungarica in Context 

  Schandl, Veronika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

  The paper wishes to document a recent trend visible in the Hungarian independent theatre scene – a turn towards social, political issues, as well as a growing sensitivity towards the visible tensions in Hungarian political ...

• Symptomizing Crises. Theatres of the Pandemic – Isolated But Open and Inside/Outside 

  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

  My aim in this article is to look into manifestations of the corona crisis in theatre and performance as well as representations of other conflicts and problems, revealed or intensified by the pandemic. Drawing upon theories ...

• Religious and Emotional Communities in John Heywood and John Bale’s Interludes 

  Christ, Adam (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

  The paper examines emotional communities in early modern English drama, specifically interludes by John Heywood and John Bale. It explores the connections between emotion and religion, and seeks to uncover whether and how ...

• “Don’t Mention the War”: Live Aid Concert and UEFA EURO 2020 Finals as Examples of the Separation of Global Mega-events from Political Conflict 

  Bridgman, Timothy (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)

  This research compares two important British live entertainment mega-events held at Wembley Stadium in London, and examines their attempts to distance themselves from the mentioning of political conflict or war. The paper ...

• Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Ignorance" 

  Goszczyńska, Marta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

  One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance ...

• Resisting the Oppressive Paternal Metaphor of God in Michèle Roberts’s "Impossible Saints" 

  Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

  The protagonist of Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints, Josephine, establishes a nonconformist convent for women who seek communion with God by following an unorthodox path of sensual spirituality. Impossible Saints ...

• “The Ecstasy of the Between-Us”: Sharing the World in Michèle Roberts’s Relational Poetics 

  Szuba, Monika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

  In Through Vegetal Being, Luce Irigaray writes about the importance of “cultivating and sharing life between all” as it will result in “the blossoming of all beings.” This perspective seems to reside at the centre of Michèle ...

• “It’s a Pagan Communion, and We Are the Priests”: Plenitude in Michèle Roberts’s Short Fiction 

  Malcolm, David (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

  Roberts’s short stories have not received extensive scholarly attention, yet they make up a substantial part of her oeuvre. Her output of short stories is configured in a particular and coherent way, one that overlaps with ...

• Michèle Roberts’s "Flesh and Blood" as an Example of "Écriture Feminine" 

  Morawska, Joanna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

  The essay offers an analysis of Flesh and Blood, a novel by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1994. It discusses the book from the vantage point of French feminist criticism, especially écriture feminine, as well as ...

• Preface 

  Goszczyńska, Marta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)

• The (Self)portrait of a Writer: A Hermeneutic Reading of Virginia Woolf’s (Auto)biographical Writings 

  Hołda, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)

  Woolf’s maturing as a writer was deeply influenced by her traumatic experiences in childhood, the (in)capacitating states of mental instability, as well as her proto-feminist convictions. Long before Barthes, she toppled ...

• Supernatural Beings and Their Appropriation of Knowledge and Power in The Seafarer by Conor McPherson and Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr 

  Koneczniak, Grzegorz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)

  This article is a comparative analysis of Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr and The Seafarer by Conor McPherson from a hauntological perspective. It aims at discussing the influence of supernatural beings on mortal ...

• Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work 

  Mirowska, Paulina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)

  The article reflects upon Sam Shepard’s playwrighting in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to his last play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), written specifically for the ...

• Authoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performances 

  Bellot, Andrea Roxana (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)

  This paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as trauma and healing. In order to do so, I will explore the writing of war memoirs and/or the re-enactment of war experiences ...

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