Michael Hattaway is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. In 2010 he gave the 100th Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy.
Boika Sokolova teaches Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway and at the British American Drama Academy (BADA). She has published widely on Shakespeare, his reception in Europe and performance.
Derek Roper is a former Senior Lecturer in the department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Preface Contributors Introduction
I. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY 1 From the unlove of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet without the Prince: a Shakespearean mirror held up to the fortunes of new Bulgaria Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova 2 Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after Thomas Sorge
II. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND? 3 Hamlets made in Germany, East and West Manfred Pfister 4 'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe Robin Headlam Wells
III. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS 5 Shakespearean nationhoods Jonathan Bate 6 'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation Nicholas Potter
IV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST 7 Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics Martin Hilsky 8 Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945 Marta Gibinska 9 Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V Tom Healy 10 Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me Terence Hawkes
V. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE 11 Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will Rafael Portillo and Manuel Gomez-Lara 12 'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history Mark Sokolyansky
VI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS 13 Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home Odette-Irenne Blumenfeld 14 Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage Evgenia Pancheva 15 Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia Janja Ciglar-Zanic
VII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM 16 Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge of tribalism Harriett Hawkins 17 'Perplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe James Siemon 18 The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in CymbelineErica Sheen 19 Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe Thomas Sorge
VIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING 20 Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Burt 21 Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions Michael Hattaway
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