Shakespeare In The New Europe (Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

"Shakespeare is the national poet of many nations besides his own, though a peculiarly subversive one in both east and west. This volume contains a score of essays by scholars from Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and the USA, written to show how the momentous changes of 1989 were mirrored in the way Shakespeare has been interpreted and produced. The collection offers a valuable record of what Shakespeare has meant in the modern world and some pointers to what he may mean in the future."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface Contributors Introduction I. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY From the unlove of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet without the Prince: a Shakespearean mirror held up to the fortunes of new Bulgaria Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after II. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND? Hamlets made in Germany, East and West 'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe III. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS Shakespearean nationhoods 'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation IV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945 Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me V. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will 'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history VI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia VII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge to tribalism Terplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in Cymbeline Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe VIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions Index