RSS 1.0Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2021) vol. 24
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Afterword: Posthumanism—Past, Present and Future
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Jan Kott is Dead, Long Live to the ˂“Hybrid”˃ Critic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This article is a little tribute that a drama teacher, an editor and translator and a lecturer in English Literature would like to contribute to this Special Issue in Honour of Professor Dr Jan Kott, the most influential ... -
Facial Recognition and Posthuman Technologies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural and personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern and the ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders and ... -
Superhero Shakespeare in Golden Age Comics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Albert Lewis Kanter launched Classic Comics in 1941, a series of comic books that retold classic literature for a young audience. Five of Shakespeare’s celebrated plays appear in the collection. The popularity of Classics ... -
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity”: Compassion and the Nonhuman in Richard III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)When Lady Anne accuses Richard of cruelty in the wooing scene of act one in Richard III, she claims that even the fiercest beast will demonstrate some degree of pity. Her attempt to categorize Richard as somehow both less ... -
“Forward and Backward”: Actants and Agency in Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This essay presents a posthumanist reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, two plays which feature a scientist/magus who attempts to control his environment through personal agency. After detailing ... -
An Unexpected Journey “from the naves to the chops”: “Macbeth”, Animal Trade, and Theatrical Experience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper proposes to appreciate the play’s butcheries as an incision into the unstable character of the category of the human. The vividness of the “strange images of death” is thus analysed with reference to the cultural ... -
Horrible Imaginings: Jan Kott, the Grotesque, and “Macbeth, Macbeth”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Throughout Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary, a keyword for the combination of philosophical, aesthetic and modern qualities in Shakespearean drama is “grotesque.” This term is also relevant to other influential ... -
The Myth of Total Shakespeare: Filmic Adaptation and Posthuman Collaboration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The convergence of textuality and multimedia in the twenty-first century signals a profound shift in early modern scholarship as Shakespeare’s text is no longer separable from the diffuse presence of Shakespeare on film. ... -
Kabbalah, "Dybbuks", and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of "Twin Peaks"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)In the series Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, David Lynch and others create a mythological framework structured by and filtered through Shakespeare in a postsecular exploration of the posthuman. Twin Peaks exemplifies a cultural ... -
An Interview with Karen Raber: Reflections on Posthumanist Shakespeares
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Introduction: Jan Kott and Posthumanist Entanglements
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