Browsing Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (2022) vol. 25 by Title
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Book Reviews
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Contributors
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
In memoriam: Werner Habicht (29 January 1930 – 5 November 2022)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Theatre Reviews
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Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage
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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 ...