Shakespeare in the New EuropeMichael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova, Derek Roper 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 new 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. Papers were circulated in draft, and discussed and developed at a symposium held at Sofia in May 1993. By then much evil as well as good had befallen the new Europe, but the sense of minds meeting in open friendly contact made this a hopeful occasion. The volume gives a valuable record of what Shakespeare has meant in our time and some pointers to what he may mean in the future. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action actors aesthetic Agincourt Andrei Serban Antony artistic audience authority become British Bulgarian Caliban censorship century characters Ciulei classical Communist contemporary context critical Croatian cultural Cymbeline Czech director discourse drama Elizabethan England English essay Europe European film Fortinbras German Hamlet Heiner Müller's Henry Henry's hero human idea ideal identity ideological intellectual interpretation Jan Kott king Kott Kuckhoff Laertes language literature Liviu Ciulei London lovers Macbeth means Midsummer Night's Dream modern moral narrative Othello performance Peter Brook play's poet Polish political present prince production Prospero reading reality recent Renaissance rhetoric Richard Richard II role Romanian romantic Romeo and Juliet Russian scene seems sense sexual Shakespeare Shakespeare Our Contemporary Shakespeare's plays social socialist society Soviet Spanish speech stage suggests Tempest theatre theatrical tion Titus Andronicus tradition tragedy tragic translation voice Weimar West words young