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基本説明
These essays cover not only Great Britain, the USA, and Germany, but also Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and Japan.
Full Description
These essays show how Shakespeare as a cultural commodity was imported, appropriated, and exploited in countries around the world in the 19th century. Essays are grouped by the type of appropriation they emphasize - translations and adaptations, performances and theatre, and scholarship.
Contents
Introduction, Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney and John M. Mercer. Part 1 Translations and adaptations: Shakespeare as a cultural weapon - aspects of Shakespeare appropriation in 19th-century Flanders, Jozef De Vos; reverent readings - 19th-century Shakespeare translations in Romania, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu; mediated bardolatry - two paradigms of Shakespeare in 19th-century Latin America, Maria-Clara Galery; the first two Yiddish lears, Rhoda Silver Kachuck; Shakespeare in 19th-century Japan, Yoshiko Kawachi. Part 2 Performances and theatre: "contributing our half" - Ludwig Tieck's Shakespeare productions in Dresden and Berlin, 1820-1843, Michael Patterson; (re)turning to Shakespeare or imitating the Shakespeare cult in Hungary? the 19th-century theatres of Gabor Egressy and William Charles Macready, Gabriella Reuss; Ira Aldridge - European Shakespeare tragedian, Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney; breaking butterflies and taming shrews -hysteria, acting styles and gender politics in late Victorian Shakespeare production, Michael Mangan. Part 3 Scholarly and critical approaches: in search of a mastermind - Georg Brendes's William Shakespeare, Niels B. Hansen; Shakespeare's Bohemia/Poland/Lithuania revisited, Andrzej Weselinski. Part 4 Inspiration for visual arts and creative writing: "speaking eloquently to the 19th century" - physical images of Shakespeare and his characters in Victorian St. Louis, John M. Mercer ; "Boris Godunov" - Russian "Macbeth" or a chronicle play?, Mark Sokolyansky; "like a woman rising from a tomb" - Salome, Cleopatra and Victorian Egypt, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza; fictional Shakespeares in 19th-century Germany, Werner Habicht.