Macbeth in Modern European Culture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cerdá, Juan F., editor.

Prescott, Paul, editor.

Series:

Shakespeare and Adaptation.

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long 20th century.

Contents:

Introduction: Adapting Macbeth in Modernity: European Rhizomes and Nomadic War Machines (Juan F. Cerdá, University of Murcia, Spain) Part 1: The Age of Extremes 1. Bertolt Brecht: The Three Macbeths (William C Carroll, Boston University, USA) 2. Arendt, Jaspers, Auden: Macbeth and the Banality of Evil (Erica Sheen, University of York, UK) 3. Macbeth in Stalin's Russia: Allusion and Performance (Natalia Khomenko, York University, Canada) Part 2: The Edges of Europe 4. Shakespeare at the Edge of Europe: Surveying Macbeth and Turkish Culture (Anna Carleton Forrester, University of Georgia Press, USA) 5. Macbeth and the Catalan Independence Movement (Laura Campillo Arnaiz, University of Murcia, Spain) 6. Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter (1982) and Scotland's Place in Europe (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 7. Ingmar Bergman, Macbeth and the Royal Dramatic Theatre: A Chronology of Directors, Actors and Stories of the Death of Kings (Kiki Lindell Tersmeden, Lund University, Sweden) Part 3: Absurdisms and Avant-Gardes 8. Late Modern Macbeths on the Spanish Stage (2000-2020): Gendering Scotland and Galician Regionalism (Juan F. Cerdá, Universidad de Murcia, Spain) 9. Scenes from a Marriage: Macbeth as Domestic Drama in Czech and Slovak Culture (Eva Kyselová, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague DAMU, Czech Republic) 10. 'Strange matters': Silviu Purcarete's absurdist Macbett (2007, 2021) (Nicoleta Cinpoes, University of Worcester, UK) Part 4: Birnam Woods 11. 'Who can impress the forest': Orchestrating the Birnam Woods in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Roman Brandstaetter (1906-1987) (Przemyslaw Pozar, University of Warsaw, Poland) 12. 'I look'd toward Birnam': Managing Shakespeare Heritage in Contemporary Scotland (Toria Johnson, University of Birmingham, UK) 13. The Birnam Wood Motif in Spanish and Catalan Culture (Vanessa Palomo Berjaga, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Part 5: Surveys and Future Directions 14. 'Had I three ears...': Macbeth on French radio (Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France) 15. Th' Usurper's Cursèd Head: Public Discourse and Politics, Macbeth's decade on the Hungarian stages (Veronika Schandl, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) 16. Revision and Gender in the Memoirs of Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812-1890) (Anne-Sophie Refskou, Aarhus University, Denmark) 17. 'Fit to govern?' Macbeth and the Vicissitudes of Its Bulgarian Stage Life (Boika Sokolova, University of Notre Dame, USA, and Kirilka Stavreva, Cornell College, USA) References Index

ISBN:

1-350-42754-3

1-350-42752-7

9781350427525

OCLC:

1559240621