Shakespeare on European festival stages / edited by Nicoleta Cinpoes, Florence March and Paul Prescott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinpoes, Nicoleta, editor.

March, Florence, 1970- editor.

Prescott, Paul, 1974- editor.

John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Drama festivals--Europe--History.

Drama festivals.

Theater.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.

Summary:

"Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare's presence at European festivals and to examine the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, while considering, in turn, the impact festivals have on the production and circulation of staged Shakespeare. This collection offers the most authoritative and informed accounts of a wide range of festivals hosted in 14 countries, including the Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia), the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (Poland), Shake-Nice! (France) and the Almago Festival (Spain). From the aftermath of World War II until now, festivals have deployed Shakespeare as a model of inclusive theatre to provide alternative answers to Europe's multi-faceted crises. This collection charts the history of Shakespeare appropriation in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries through the framework of festivals. It provides a dialectical perspective on local and global, national and trans-national strategies of appropriation of Shakespeare, providing new angles from which to analyse his historical, cultural, political, diplomatic and ethical significance in Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare on European festival stages: An introduction / Florence March

2. Shaping democratic festivals through Shakespeare in southern France: Avignon, Montpellier, Nice / Florence March

3. Shakespeare at the Almagro festivals: Reinventing the plays in Spain / Isabel Guerrero

4. Shakespeare at Four Castles: Summer Shakespeare Festival in Prague, Brno, Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Bratislava (Slovakia) / Eva Kyselova

5. Globolatry in Germany: The Shakespeare Festival at Neuss - a dramaturg's perspective / Vanessa Schormann

6. A world's stage for many players: The International Shakespeare Festival - Craiova (Romania) / Nicoleta Cinpoes

7. Festivalizing Shakespeare in Italy: Verona and Rome / Maddalena Pennacchia

8. The Gdansk Shakespeare Festival: Four centuries of travelling theatre in Poland / Jacek Fabiszak

9. From a schoolyard play to civic festival: Shakespeare in the Bulgarian village of Patalenitsa Boika / Kirilka Stavreva

10. The Gyula Shakespeare Festival (Hungary): Local, national, European, global / Agnes Matuska

11. Unhomely Shakespeares: Interculturalism and diplomacy in Elsinore / Anne Sophie Refskou

12. Shakespeare's Globe in Indija: A portrait of Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia) / Alexandra Portmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare on European festival stages

ISBN:

9781350140165

1350140163

OCLC:

1264173065

Publisher Number:

99989650280