RSS 1.0Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2022) vol. 25
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Spis treści
1. In memoriam Werner Habicht (29 January 1930 – 5 November 2022)Christa Jansohn
2. Contributors
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
3. Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
4. Taming the Glitter Ball: A Diagnosis of Shakespeare ‘for all time’—Sketched From South Africa
Laurence Wright
5. Naked Villany: The Fatal Attraction of Richard III and Donald Trump
David Livingstone
6. Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa’s "The Bad Sleep Well" as a Modern "Hamlet"
Stan Reiner van Zon
7. "Hamlet", "Macbeth", Anantanarayanan’s "The Silver Pilgrimage" and A Touch of Occidentalism
Mythili Kaul
8. The Poetics of Body: Representing Cultural Imaginations in Yang Jung-Ung’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
Boram Choi
9. The Enemy Other: Discourse of Evil in William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest"
Ayman Abu-Shomar
10. Writing and Rewriting Nationhood: "Henry V" and Political Appropriation of Shakespeare
Hikaru Minami
11. From Casket to Court via Mercy and the Ring: Commemorating Shakespeare’s Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"
Mitashree Tripathy
12. Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
13. Book Reviews
Miki Iwata, Nora Galland, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, Yanhua Xia
14. Theatre Reviews
Marinela Golemi, Xenia Georgopoulou
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Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)This essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania. I examine travelogues and geography ... -
Writing and Rewriting Nationhood: "Henry V" and Political Appropriation of Shakespeare
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Shakespeare’s Henry V is often regarded as a nationalistic play and has been appropriated for political spin and propaganda to enhance the sense of national unity. Shakespeare captures the emerging nationalistic feeling ... -
From Casket to Court via Mercy and the Ring: Commemorating Shakespeare’s Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Shakespeare’s comedies mark his artistic excellence in the portrayal of woman characters. Shakespearean women have invariably moved the audience and their understanding towards them from being sweet and mawkish to expressing ... -
The Enemy Other: Discourse of Evil in William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Caliban, the ‘enemy Other’ of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a character that allows further investigations of the colonial ideology in its earliest forms; locating ‘evil’ forces outside the continent of Europe and ... -
The Poetics of Body: Representing Cultural Imaginations in Yang Jung-Ung’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)This article explores the psychology that motivates Yang Jung-Ung and his actors in the process of translating Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a Korean style. By focusing on the ways of showing the theme of ... -
"Hamlet", "Macbeth", Anantanarayanan’s "The Silver Pilgrimage" and A Touch of Occidentalism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)The article focuses on an encounter with Shakespeare in an unusual place, a novel set in medieval India, where Shakespeare is viewed and assessed by an Indian audience, by Indian listeners, through principles of classical ... -
Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa’s "The Bad Sleep Well" as a Modern "Hamlet"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Among Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira’s three Shakespeare films, Throne of Blood (1957), Ran (1985), and The Bad Sleep Well (1960), the latter has been relatively ignored in Anglophone Shakespeare criticism. This ... -
Taming the Glitter Ball: A Diagnosis of Shakespeare ‘for all time’—Sketched from South Africa
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Shakespeare travels the globe more variously and unpredictably than any other dramatist. In performance his texts have shown themselves hospitable to vastly different ideological interpretations. By making these two points, ... -
Naked Villany: The Fatal Attraction of Richard III and Donald Trump
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-14)Although no longer American President, Donald Trump still manages to upstage the current administration. An explanation for his “sinister aesthetics”, to use Joel Elliot Slotkin’s concept, can be seemingly found in developing ... -
Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage
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Contributors
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In memoriam: Werner Habicht (29 January 1930 – 5 November 2022)
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