Shakespeare in the New Europe.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (402 pages)
- Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
- Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
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.