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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prescott, Paul, editor.

March, Florence, editor.

Cinpoes, Nicoleta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Drama festivals--Europe.

Drama festivals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : The Arden Shakespeare, 2021.

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:

Introduction / Nicoleta Cinpoes, Florence March and Paul Prescott

1. Shakespeare on French festival stages: Avignon, Montpellier, Nice / Florence March, University Paul-Valřy Montpellier 3, France

2. Shakespeare in Dubrovnik: the city and its festival (1950) / Ivan Lupic, Stanford University, USA

3. Shakespeare at the Almagro Festivals: reinventing the plays in Spain (1978) / Isabel Guerrero, University of Murcia, Spain

4. Shakespeare at Four Castles: summer Shakespeare festival in Prague, Brno, Ostrava (Czech Republic), and Bratislava (Slovakia) (1990) / Filip Krajník, University of Brno, Czech Republic and Eva Kyselov,̀ Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

5. Shakespeare Festival at Globe in Neuss, Germany (1991) / Vanessa Schormann, University of Munich, Germany

6. A world's stage for many players: international Shakespeare, Craiova, Romania (1994) / Nicoleta Cinpoes, University of Worcester, UK

7. Shakespeare festivals in Italy: Verona and Rome / Lisanna Calvi, University of Verona, Italy and Maddalena Pennacchia, University of Rome, Italy

8. The Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (1996) / Urszula Kizelbach and Jacek Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

9. Grassroots Shakespeare: performances in the village of Patalenitsa, Bulgaria (2000) / Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva

10. A transnational experience: The Gyula Shakespeare Festival, Hungary (2005) / Ágnes Matuska, University of Szeged, Hungary and Júlia Paraizs, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

11. Diplomacy and cultural exchange: The Shakespeare Festival at 'Hamlet's Castle', Elsinore, Denmark (2008) / Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey, UK

12. The Itaka Shakespeare Festival: Shakespeare's globe in Indjia, Serbia (2014) / Alexandra Portmann, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany

Conclusion / Nicoleta Cinpoes, Florence March and Paul Prescott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350140196

1350140198

9781350140189

135014018X

9781350140172

1350140171

OCLC:

1240681263