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Shakespeare in History, History through Shakespeare: Caliban by the Yellow Sands
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
Percy MacKaye’s community masque, Caliban by the Yellow Sands, was performed
in front of thousands of spectators between May 24th and June 5th, 1916 at New York
Lewisohn Stadium, as part of American celebrations of the ...
Shakespeare at the Español: Franco and the Construction of a "National" Culture
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
The paper, which is part of a wide-ranging project concerned with the reception of
Shakespeare in Spain, focuses on the early stages of the Franco dictatorship (the 1940s)
and the place Shakespeare’s plays occupied in ...
Shakespeare and Europe: History – Performance – Memory
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
Shakespeare has been performed on European stages for over 400 years. English strolling
players began coming to the Continent in the 1590s and brought with them Shakespeare´s
dramas in abbreviated and adulterated forms. ...
Shakespearean Histories and Greek History: Henry V and Richard II at the Greek National Theatre (1941, 1947)
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
Henry V and Richard II made their first and only appearance on the Greek stage in the
turbulent 1940s. The first was performed in March 1941, just before the arrival of the
German nazis, and the second in November 1947, ...
"Done Like a Frenchman": Henry VI, the Tyranny of the Audience and Spect-Actorial Adaptations
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
In early modern theatre, there are many examples of audiences recognising themselves in
performances that they watch. It is this recognition which creates comedy in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, when the young married ...
History – Performance – Memory: Richard III and the Subversion of Theatre in Hungary, 1955
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
This paper looks at two Richard III production in Hungary, the latter of which has
since achieved legendary status. Put on just before the 1956-revolution it was often reinterpreted
as a revolutionary act, the best example ...
Shakespeare’s Histories and Polish History: Television Productions of Henry IV (1975), Richard III (1989) and Othello (1981/1984)
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
The article discusses the reception and signification of select televisual productions of
Shakespeare’s history plays on Polish television. My choice of teleplays has been determined
by two factors: one the one hand, ...
Richard III in Russian Theatre at the Twilight of the "Thaw"
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
Richard III was very rarely staged in Russian theatre in tsarist and Stalin’s times, because the
story of inhuman tyranny provoked associations with Russian political reality. In the period of
the so-called “Thaw” ...
"Romanian" Shakespeare on the New York Stage: Andrei Serban’s Hamlet
(Lodz University Press, 2007)
Between Transgression and Institutionalization: Teatro Comuna’s Measure for Measure
(Lodz University Press, 2007)