RSS 1.0Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2021) vol. 23
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CONTENTS
1. ContributorsKrystyna Kujawińska Courtney
2. From the Editor
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
Articles
3. Four-Character Idioms and the Rhetoric of Japanese Shakespeare TranslationDaniel Gallimore
4. The Domestication and Arabization of the Bard: Towards the Reception of Shakespeare in the Arab World
Mohammed Naser Hassoon
5. Performing Calibanesque Baptisms: Shakespearean Fractals of British Indian History
Arup K. Chatterjee
6. From Social Justice to Metaphor: The Whitening of Othello in the Russian Imagination
Natalia Khomenko
7. Crossings with Jatra: Bengali Folk-theatre Elements in a Transcultural Representation of Lady Macbeth
Aabrita Dutta Gupta
8. The Shakespeare Brand in Contemporary “Fair Verona”
Eleonora Oggiano
9. Individualization and Oedipalization in Reza Servati’s Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: An Expressionist Reworking
Mahdi Javidshad
10. ‘How can you say to me I am a King?’: New Historicism and its (Re)interpretations of the Design of Kingly Figures in Shakespeare’s History Plays
James Dale
11. The Inverted Initiation Rituals in Shakespeare with a Special Emphasis on Hamlet
Andrzej Wicher
12. The Medievalism of Emotions in King Lear
Anna Czarnowus
13. The Readers of 17th-Century English Manuscript Commonplace Book Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden
Tianhu Hao
Book Reviews
14. Book ReviewsMagdalena Cieślak, Jessica Chiba
Theatre Reviews
15. Theatre ReviewsAnna Kowalcze-Pawlik
16. In-MeMoriaM - Dr. Vicente Forés López
Jose Saiz Molina
Recent Submissions
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Theatre Reviews
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In-MeMoriaM < Dr. Vicente Forés López >
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The Readers of 17th-Century English Manuscript Commonplace Book Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a 17th-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections. The readers of Hesperides generally combine reading and thinking, or reading and writing. ... -
Book Reviews
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The Medievalism of Emotions in King Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)King Lear exemplifies two cultures of feeling, the medieval and the early modern one. Even though the humoral theory lay at the heart of the medieval and the early modern understanding of emotions, there was a sudden change ... -
The Inverted Initiation Rituals in Shakespeare with a Special Emphasis on Hamlet
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The article deals the possibility of applying Vladimir Propp’s, basically anthropological idea of “the inverted ritual” to the interpretation of certain plays by William Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. The said inversion ... -
‘How can you say to me I am a King?’: New Historicism and its (Re)interpretations of the Design of Kingly Figures in Shakespeare’s History Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The 1980’s saw the emergence of New Historicist criticism, particularly through Stephen Greenblatt’s work. Its legacy remains influential, particularly on Shakespearean Studies. I wish to outline New Historicist methodological ... -
Individualization and Oedipalization in Reza Servati’s Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: An Expressionist Reworking
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)This article investigates Reza Servati’s Macbeth, an Iranian prize-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to discuss the way the adaptor prunes the source text aiming at presenting his distinctive reading of Shakespeare’s ... -
The Shakespeare Brand in Contemporary “Fair Verona”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The idea that Shakespeare belongs to the world is certainly not new. From the beginning of his afterlife as a dramatist two issues have been consistently put forward by his contemporaries: 1) his art’s universality—for Ben ... -
Performing Calibanesque Baptisms: Shakespearean Fractals of British Indian History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)This paper uncovers new complexity for Shakespearean studies in examining three anecdotes overlooked in related historiography—the first Indian baptism in Britain, that of Peter Pope, in 1616, and its extrapolation in ... -
Crossings with Jatra: Bengali Folk-theatre Elements in a Transcultural Representation of Lady Macbeth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)This paper examines a transcultural dance-theatre focusing on Lady Macbeth, through the lens of eastern Indian Bengali folk-theatre tradition, jatra. The wide range of experimentation with Shakespeare notwithstanding, the ... -
From Social Justice to Metaphor: The Whitening of Othello in the Russian Imagination
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention to racial conflict, this play came to symbolize, for Soviet ... -
Four-Character Idioms and the Rhetoric of Japanese Shakespeare Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Yoji jukugo are idioms comprised of four characters (kanji) that can be used to enhance the textuality of a Japanese Shakespeare translation, whether in response to Shakespeare’s rhetoric or as compensation for the tendency ... -
The Domestication and Arabization of the Bard: Towards the Reception of Shakespeare in the Arab World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Since Najib al-Haddad and Tanyusʻ Abdu’s first Arabic versions of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet at the end of the 19th century, the reception of Shakespeare in the Arab world has gone through a process of adaptation, ... -
Contributors
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From the Editor
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