Przeglądaj Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2025) vol. 31(46) według daty wydania

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Novelty on the Ukrainian Puppet Stage

Lavrentii, Roman; Ostapiuk, Olesia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

The article examines the first stage performances of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Ukrainian puppet theatres, which appeared as late as the twenty-first century. The authors examine productions by directors Oleksii ...

Modernising the Ukrainian Language through the Power of Translation: Ihor Kostetskyi’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Kolomiyets, Lada (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

A translation project of Shakespeare’s sonnets undertaken by a prominent representative of the Ukrainian diaspora in Western Europe, Ihor Kostetskyi, aimed to reconstruct and revitalise the modern Ukrainian language through ...

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind”: Reading Vladyslav Yerko’s Illustrations to Shakespearein Ukrainian

Lazarenko, Darya; Cherniak, Yurii (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

The article comments on the intersemiotic translation of Shakespeare’s works in Vladyslav Yerko’s conceptual illustrations to Hamlet (2008), Romeo and Juliet (2016), and King Lear (2021), translated by Yurii Andrukhovych ...

Depicting Collective Support on the Theatrical Stage: The Case of We Are Hamlet

Veselovska, Hanna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

The article describes a unique theatre project recently implemented by an international team of directors, actors, and stage designers representing the Bremer Shakespeare Company, the Prague Shakespeare Company and the ...

Working Title: A Collaboration Made in York

Parr, Philip (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

In Memoriam: Mark Sokolianskyi (1939–2025)

Torkut, Nataliya; Moskvitina, Daria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

Virtual Museum “#Hamlet_UA: Act 1, Scene 1943” in the Context of Decolonizing Knowledge about Ukraine

Torkut, Nataliya; Deineka, Svitlana; Lavrentii, Roman (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

The article presents the history of the creation of the virtual museum: “#HAMLET_UA: ACT 1, SCENE 1943.” It emphasizes its significance for modern society in Ukraine and beyond, and highlights the features of navigation. ...

Britain, Shakespeare, and Ukraine Interview with Prof. Nataliya Torkut, Head of Український Шекспірівський центр [Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre; Ukraïns’kij Šekspìrìvs’kij centr] by Dr. Olha Kvasnytsia, journalist at the newspaper День [The Day; Denʼ]

Kvasnytsia, Olha; Torkut, Nataliya (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

As part of this special issue, we are delighted to host a conversation by the journalist, Dr. Olha Kvasnytsia, with Prof. Nataliya Torkut, the Head of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre and Honorary Senior Research Fellow ...

Lost (in) Translations: How Ukrainian Shakespeareana Must Be Bigger Than We Think

Moskvitina, Daria; Korneliuk, Bohdan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

This article delves into the complex history of Shakespeare translations in Ukraine, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of “lost translations.” These losses are categorized as either ontological (irrevocably lost ...

The Precariousness of Human Existence in William Shakespeare’s Plays: A Ukrainian Perspective

Bandrovska, Olha; Torkut, Nataliya (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

The study of precarity has emerged as a new theoretical interest in the humanities in response to contemporary global crises such as military conflicts, terrorist attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological disasters, and ...

Shelter from the Storm: Two Recent Shakespeare Stagings by the Ivano-Frankivsk Drama Theatre

Fedorkiv, Oksana; Livingstone, David (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

This paper examines two recent Shakespeare productions by the Ivan Franko National Drama Theatre staged in Ivan-Frankivsk, Ukraine: Hamlet and Twelfth Night. The classic tragedy is directed by Rostyslav Derzhypilskyi, and ...

War-torn King Lear: Adaptation as Catharsis

Cheaptanaru, Gabriela (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

Ukrainian director Vyacheslav Yehorov staged King Lear around war-torn Ukraine, and then in 2024 toured this Ukrainian King Lear to Stratford-upon-Avon (Royal Shakespeare Company; see Christie Carson’s article in this ...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Social Change: Inclusive Ukrainian Theatre Projects (2019–2023)

Rosa-Lavrentii, Sofiia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

This article focuses on the analysis of art-therapeutic, inclusive theatre projects in Ukraine that were based on Shakespeare’s plays and implemented from 2019 to 2023. The goal of these projects was deeply integrative: ...

Shakespeare Studies at the Ivan Franco National University of Lviv: Maiia Harbuziuk in memoriam

Tsyhanyk, Myroslava; Novosad-Lesiuk, Khrystyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

Several aspects of the development of Shakespearean studies at the Department of Theatre Studies and Acting at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv are explored, highlighting its role as an academic centre fostering ...

The Hamlet Syndrome (dir. Niewiera & Rosołowski, 2022) – Drawing a Portrait of the Maidan Generation with Piotr Rosołowski

Rasmus, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

Several months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, two Polish filmmakers who specialize in documenting political, social and cultural transformations in Eastern Europe, Elwira Niewiera and Piotr ...

Contributors

Cinpoeş, Nicoleta; Lichterfeld, Imke (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)

Theatre Studio of IDP’s Uzhik Production of King Lear, directed by Viacheslav Yehorov, staged at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 14 and 15 June 2024

Carson, Cristie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)