Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic countries : national revival and interwar politics, 1870-1940 /: national revival and interwar politics, 1870-1940. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors.
• Editors: Sivefors, Per; Keinänen, Nely
• Contents: General introduction / (Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors) -- Part I: Shakespeare and Nationalist Revival? Chapter 1: Astraour Eysteinsson (University of Iceland): Sound and Fury -- to Begin With: Shakespeare Takes Shape in Icelandic ; Chapter 2: Nely Keinanen (University of Helsinki, Finland): The Role of Women in the Early Transmission of Shakespeare to Finland ; Chapter 3: Pentti Paavolainen (University of Helsinki, Finland): Kaarlo?Bergbom?and the Finnish-Language Shakespeare Tradition: Personal Reactions to German Romanticism ; Chapter 4: Christina Sandhaug (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences): Shakespeare on stage at the Norwegian National Theatre, 1899?1914? -- Part II: Shakespeare during and between the wars. Chapter 5: Anne Sophie Refskou (University of Surrey, UK): Endings and Beginnings in Elsinore ; Chapter 6: Svenn-Arve Myklebost (Volda University College, Norway): Shakespeare, Nynorsk and the Nordic Spirit of Freedom: Henrik Rytter's Shakespeare translations (1932-3) ; Chapter 7: Robert E. Sawyer (East Tennessee State University, USA): Kronborg Castle and Hamlet : a Posthumanist Perspective ; Chapter 8: Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden): 'A great interpreter of modern life': Eyvind Johnson and the Primitivist Rejection of Hamlet Afterword: Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) -- Appendix: Timeline of Nordic Shakespeare, part 2 -- Notes -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 822.33; Art appreciation; Scandinavia; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Appreciation -- Scandinavia -- History -- 19th century; Appreciation -- Scandinavia -- History -- 20th century; Translations into Scandinavian languages -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350251281; 1350251283; 9781350251267; 1350251267
• Related ISBNs: 9781350251298; 9781350251250
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