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Economic Nationalism in Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
(Lodz University Press, 2016-04-22)
Close to the time of Elizabeth’s expulsion of the Hanseatic merchants and the closing of the Steelyard (der Stahlhof) in the years 1597-98, two London plays engaged extensively with the business of trade, the merchant ...
Shakespeare, Macbeth and the Hindu Nationalism of Nineteenth-Century Bengal
(Lodz University Press, 2016-04-22)
The essay examines a Bengali adaptation of Macbeth, namely Rudrapal Natak (published 1874) by Haralal Ray, juxtaposing it with differently accented commentaries on the play arising from the English-educated elites of 19th ...
Whose Castle is it Anyway?: Local/Global Negotiations of a Shakespearean Location
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)
Kronborg Castle in the Danish town of Elsinore is a location strongly associated with Shakespeare thanks to the setting of Hamlet. It is a place where fiction currently eclipses history, at least in the context of a cultural ...
Shakespeare and National Mythologizing in Czech Nineteenth Century Drama
(De Gruyter Open, 2016-04-22)
The paper will discuss the ways in which Shakespeare’s tragedies (King Lear) and histories (1 and 2 Henry IV), translated in the period of the Czech cultural renaissance (known also as the Czech National Revival) at the ...
National Poets, the Status of the Epic and the Strange Case of Master William Shakespeare
(De Gruyter Open, 2016-04-22)
This essay contextualises Shakespeare as product of a field of forces encapsulating national identity and relative cultural status. It begins by historicising the production of national poets in Romantic and Nationalist ...
Writing and Rewriting Nationhood: "Henry V" and Political Appropriation of Shakespeare
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)
Shakespeare’s Henry V is often regarded as a nationalistic play and has been appropriated for political spin and propaganda to enhance the sense of national unity. Shakespeare captures the emerging nationalistic feeling ...