Shakespeare in the new Europe / edited by Michael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova and Derek Roper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hattaway, Michael, editor.

Sokolova, Boika, editor.

Roper, Derek, editor.

Series:

Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Europe, Eastern.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1950-.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Europe, Eastern.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life--20th century.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shakespeare is the national poet of many nations besides his own, though a peculiarly subversive one in both east and west. This volume contains a score of essays by scholars from Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and the USA, written to show how the momentous changes of 1989 were mirrored in the way Shakespeare has been interpreted and produced. The collection offers a valuable record of what Shakespeare has meant in the modern world and some pointers to what he may mean in the future.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

I. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY

From the unlove of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet without the Prince: a Shakespearean mirror held up to the fortunes of new Bulgaria

Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after

II. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND?

Hamlets made in Germany, East and West

'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe

III. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS

Shakespearean nationhoods

'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation

IV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST

Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics

Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945

Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V

Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me

V. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE

Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will

'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history

VI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS

Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home

Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage

Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia

VII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM

Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge to tribalism

Terplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe

The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in Cymbeline

Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe.

VIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING

Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe

Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474247573

1474247571

OCLC:

927103605