Description
Book SynopsisCharting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of
Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of
Macbeth and the differing translations of
Hamlet into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re-working of
King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge's performances in Stockholm as Othello and Shylock, it will appeal to all those interested in the reception of Shakespeare and its relationship to the political and social conditions.The volume intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like rhizome', which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of centre' versus periphery'. It offers a new assessment of these notions, revealing how the dissemination of Shakespeare is determined by a series
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction
Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors 1: The First Danish Production of
Hamlet (1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis
Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2: Geijer’s
Macbeth – Page, Stage and the Seeds of Time
Kiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hägglund (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in Translation and Transition in
Hamlet Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley
(Uppsala University, Sweden) 4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall’s
Ruunulinna Jyrki Nummi, Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland) 5: Søren Kierkegaard’s Adaptation Of
King Lear James Newlin (Case Western Reserve University, USA) 6: ‘A blot on Swedish hospitality’: Ira Aldridge’s Visit to Stockholm in 1857
Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 7: Shakespeare’s Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi’s Drama
Karkurit [The Fugitives]
Riitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland) 8: Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday Life
Lynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA) 9: Knut Hamsun’s Criticism of Shakespeare
Martin Humpál (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of Culture
Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A Timeline Index
