Shakespeare in the new Europe. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova and Derek Roper.
• Editors: Hattaway, Michael; Sokolova, Boika; Roper, Derek
• Contents: PrefaceContributorsIntroductionI. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY1 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 Sokolova2 Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after Thomas SorgeII. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND? 3 Hamlets made in Germany, East and West Manfred Pfister4 'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe Robin Headlam WellsIII. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS5 Shakespearean nationhoods Jonathan Bate6 'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation Nicholas PotterIV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST7 Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics Martin Hilsky8 Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945 Marta Gibinska9 Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V Tom Healy10 Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me Terence HawkesV. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE11 Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will Rafael Portillo and Manuel Gomez-Lara12 'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history Mark SokolyanskyVI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS13 Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home Odette-Irenne Blumenfeld14 Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage Evgenia Pancheva15 Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia Janja Ciglar-ZanicVII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM16 Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge of tribalism Harriett Hawkins17 'Perplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe James Siemon18 The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in Cymbeline Erica Sheen19 Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe Thomas SorgeVIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING20 Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Burt21 Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions Michael HattawayIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822.3/3; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Art appreciation; Intellectual life; Political and social views; Theater; Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Europe, Eastern; Electronic books; Stage history -- Europe, Eastern; Stage history -- 1950-; Appreciation -- Europe, Eastern; Dramatic production; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474247573; 1474247571
• Related ISBNs: 9781850754749; 1850754748; 1474247563
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015)
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