• Book Reviews 

  Huiting, Shao; Aisu, Wang; Zuo, Jiayuan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

• Theatre Reviews 

  Golemi, Marinela (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

• From Metaphor to Metonym: Shakespearean Recognition in the United States University 

  Della Gatta, Carla (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  This essay historicizes the Shakespeare curriculum at UC Berkeley’s English department over the last one hundred years. An elite research university in the United States, UC Berkeley’s extensive course offerings have ...

• “Not For An Age, But For All Time:” Autobiography and a Re-origin of Shakespeare Studies in Canada 

  Solá Chagas Lima, Eduardo; Thompson, Julie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  Despite independence as a country, Canada belongs to the Commonwealth and has deep colonial roots and the British educational system was key in creating Canadian curricula. Given the centrality of Shakespeare’s work in the ...

• Activist Discourse and the Origins of Feminist Shakespeare Studies 

  Nerio, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Developing an informal method in which the voice of the female critic rallies ...

• “Shakespeare is a Finnish national poet:” Developing Finnish Shakespeare Scholarship from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century 

  Southgate, Laina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  In this article, I will take up the idea of “origins” as it pertains to Finnish Shakespeare during Finland’s time as an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia from 1809-1917. While not technically the beginning of Shakespearean ...

• Competing for Supremacy: The Origins of Shakespeare Studies in Japan 

  Uchimaru, Kohei (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  This paper reveals that Shakespeare studies in Japan originated through competing notions of literary studies. Traditional Japanese ideas about literature differed markedly from Anglophone ones, which focused on grammatical ...

• Turkish Shakespeare Studies: An Origins Story 

  Öğütcü, Murat (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  Shakespeare is among the most important non-Turkish authors in Turkey and has become an indispensable part of the theatre repertory and the educational curricula. Yet, the origins of Shakespeare studies have a complicated ...

• Shakespeare Studies in Iran: The British Knight for Persia 

  Partovi, Parviz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  Shakespeare’s travels into Persia started in the middle of the nineteenth century when modern socio-political forces and the need for a powerful army were fomenting important changes in the traditional structure of government, ...

• Publishing Shakespeare in India: Macmillan’s English Classics and the Aftereffects of a Colonial Education 

  Mannan, Joya (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  India’s rejection of Macmillan’s English Classics series constitutes an important counter-origin that exposes and dismantles underlying assumptions about how colonial Indian readers valued and consumed Shakespeare. In this ...

• Shakespeare Comes to Bengal 

  Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  India has the longest engagement with Shakespeare of any non-Western country. In the eastern Indian region of Bengal, contact with Shakespeare began in the eighteenth century. His plays were read and acted in newly established ...

• The Institutionalization of Shakespeare Studies in the United Kingdom 

  Sawyer, Robert (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

  This essay is devoted to Shakespearean criticism in the UK between 1920 and 1940. I begin by examining the origins of Shakespeare study at Oxford and Cambridge, by figures such as I. A. Richards (1929) and William Empson ...

• Introduction: The Global Origins of Shakespeare Studies 

  Bayer, Mark (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

• Vikram Chopra (31 July 1942 – 20 January 2023) 

  Bayer, Mark (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

• Contributors 

  Bayer, Mark (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)

• Theatre Reviews 

  Mitsui, Takehito; Georgopoulou, Xenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Book Reviews 

  Xie, Guixia; Laskowska-Hinz, Sabina; Motohashi, Ted; Tang, Jie; Wang, Yuying (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

• Utopia, Arcadia and the Forest of Arden 

  Paterson, Ronan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  In Utopia (1516) Thomas More created a humorous world with a serious purpose. His invented republic was a place where existing conventions and structures did not exist, allowing the positing of alternatives. The creation ...

• “Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company:” the American Performance of Shakespeare and the White-Washing of Political Geography 

  Meyer, John M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The paper examines the spatial overlap between the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the performance of William Shakespeare’s plays in the United States. In America, William Shakespeare seems to function as a ...

• Staging Dystopian Communities: Reimagining Shakespeare in Selected English Plays 

  Lachman, Michał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  Among the countless afterlives of William Shakespeare’s playwriting there is a strong presence of his visions of state and political powers. In universal, philosophical ways Shakespeare was addressing issues concerning the ...

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