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German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

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Introduction : recent Shakespeare studies in Germany	p. 9
The battle of memories in Shakespeare's histories	p. 21
"An argument of laughter" : cultures of laughter and the treater in early modern England	p. 42
Laesa Imaginatio, or imagination infected by passion in Shakespeare's love tragedies	p. 68
Bestiarium Humanum : Lear's animal kingdom	p. 84
Narrating Caliban : structural skepticism and the invention of the other in early modern English literature	p. 101
"She speaks, yet she says nothing : what of that?" : Romeo and Juliet in Hector Berlioz's and Leonard Bernstein's adaptations	p. 128
Oberon and Titania in the City Park : the magic of other texts as the subject of Der Park by Botho Strauss	p. 144
Point of reference or semantic space? : functions of Venice in early modern English drama	p. 161
"Mark the music" : a pound of flesh and the economics of Christian Grace : The merchant of Venice	p. 180
Shylock on the German stage in the post-Shoah era	p. 205
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" : Shylock as a theatrical figure, as a human being, and as a father	p. 224
Shakespeare and the founders	p. 239
"The country that gave birth to you a second time" : an essay about the political history of the German Shakespeare Society 1918-1945	p. 255
The German Shakespeare-Gesellschaft during the Cold War	p. 272
The German Shakespeare-Gesellschaft and "Die Wende"	p. 292
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