| Contents |
Foreword / Ton Hoenselaars -- General introduction -- Part I. Geography, history, and politics. Introduction / John Drakakis -- Making Shakespeare national / Joep Leerssen -- Twenty-three skidoo : bringing home the bard / Terence Hawkes -- "Here in Vienna" : the setting of Measure for measure and the political semiology of Shakespeare's Europe / Roderick J. Lyall -- Shakespeare, Joyce, and the politics of European traditions / Raphaël Ingelbien -- Part II. Politics and/on the stage. Introduction / Dennis Kennedy -- Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Juan de Grimaldi : cultural politics and French troops in Spain / Clara Calvo -- Coriolanus in France from 1933 to 1977 : two extreme interpretations / Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine -- Der merchant von Velence : The merchant of Venice in London, Berlin, and Budapest during World War II / Zoltán Márkus -- Measuring the "most cheerful barrack" : Shakespeare's Measure for measure in Hungary under the Kádár regime (1964-85) / Véronika Schandl -- Feminist movement and the balance of power in John Cranko's ballet The taming of the shrew (Stuttgart, 1969) / Nancy Isenberg -- Rewriting Shakespeare : Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, and the politics of performance / Lawrence Guntner -- Hybridization : a new trend in German Shakespeare productions / Wilhelm Hortmann -- Part III. The politics of criticism. Introduction / Manfred Pfister -- Groundlings, gallants, grocers : Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience and the political agendas of Shakespeare criticism / Bettina Boecker -- Hamlet and modernism : T.S. Eliot and G. Wilson Knight / Janet Clare -- "What dost thou think 'tis worth?" : Timon of Athens and politics as a nonreligious religion / Antonella Piazza -- Reeducating Germany : BBC Shakespeare 1945 / Andreas Höfele -- Part IV. Translating politics, politicizing translation. Introduction / Rui Carvalho Homem -- Translating Europe into your England / Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- Conservatism and liberalism in the four Spanish renderings of Ducis's Hamlet / Ángel-Luis Pujante and Keith Gregor -- Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and socialist realism : a case study in intersemiotic translation / Karen Bennett -- The smithy of the soul : Shakespeare, translation, and identity / Michael Cronin -- Anthologies, translations, and European identities / Dirk Delabastita. |
