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Performing Protest in Cross-Cultural Spaces: Paul Robeson and Othello
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)When the famous African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson played the lead in Shakespeare’s Othello in London in 1930, tickets were in high demand during the production’s first week. The critical response, however, was ... -
Remote Islands as Fictional and Metaphorical Places in Cervantes, Fletcher and Shakespeare
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)Islands have always occupied a significant place in literature and have been a source of inspiration for the literary imagination. Fictional islands have existed as either lost paradises, or places where law breaks down ... -
Spaghetti Shakespeare: Johnny Hamlet and the Italian Western
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)The Italian Western, Johnny Hamlet (1968), directed by Enzo G. Castellari, draws on the revenge story of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet for plot and characterization. While international distributors of the film downplayed ... -
Teatro Praga’s Omission of Shakespeare – An Intercultural Space
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)Teatro Praga’s (a Portuguese theatre company) adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest omit what is usually considered crucial to a Shakespearean adaptation by giving primacy to neither text nor plot, nor ... -
Theatre Reviews
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“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration ... -
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 ...