{"product_id":"disseminating-shakespeare-in-the-nordic-countries-9781350200869","title":"Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting 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 \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e into Danish; the first translation of \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e and the differing translations of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re-working of\u003ci\u003e King Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction \u003ci\u003eNely Keinänen and Per Sivefors\u003c\/i\u003e  1: The First Danish Production of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e (1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis  \u003ci\u003eAnnelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark)\u003c\/i\u003e  2: Geijer’s \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e – Page, Stage and the Seeds of Time  \u003ci\u003eKiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hägglund (Stockholm University, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e  3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in Translation and Transition in \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003e Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley\u003ci\u003e (Uppsala University, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e  4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall’s \u003ci\u003eRuunulinna \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJyrki Nummi, Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e  5: Søren Kierkegaard’s Adaptation Of\u003ci\u003e King Lear \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Newlin (Case Western Reserve University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  6: ‘A blot on Swedish hospitality’: Ira Aldridge’s Visit to Stockholm in 1857  \u003ci\u003ePer Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e  7: Shakespeare’s Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi’s Drama \u003ci\u003eKarkurit\u003c\/i\u003e [The Fugitives] \u003ci\u003eRiitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e  8: Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday Life \u003ci\u003eLynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  9: Knut Hamsun’s Criticism of Shakespeare  \u003ci\u003eMartin Humpál (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) \u003c\/i\u003e  Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of Culture \u003ci\u003eAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A Timeline  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019638014295,"sku":"9781350200869","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350200869.jpg?v=1750780868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disseminating-shakespeare-in-the-nordic-countries-9781350200869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}