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Book SynopsisMigrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare's migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it examines how Shakespeare contributed to national cultures and in some cases nation building. The chapters explore the routes and cultural networks through which Shakespeare entered European consciousness, from first translations to stage adaptations and critical response. The role of strolling players and actors, translators and printers, poets and dramatists, is chronicled alongside the larger political and cultural movements shaping nations. Each individual case discloses the national, literary and theatrical issues Shakespeare encountered, revealing not only how cultures have accommodated and adapted Shakespeare on their own terms but their interpretative contribution to the texts. Taken collectively the volume addresses key questions about Shakespeare's naturalization or reluctan
Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Migrating Shakespeare’ by Janet Clare and Dominique Goy-Blanquet 1. “Michelangelo of tragedy”: Shakespeare’s tortuous Italian routes by Maria Luisa De Rinaldis (University of Salento, Italy) 2“No stranger here”: Shakespeare in Germany by Wolfgang G. Müller (University of Jena, Germany) 3. Shakespeare at cultural crossroads: Switzerland by Balz Engler (Basel University, Switzerland) 4. Opening the book: the disclosure of Shakespeare in the Netherlands by Detlef Wagenaar (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) 5. Jean-François Ducis, global passeur: Shakespeare’s migration in Continental Europe by Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France) 6. No profit but the name’: the Polish reception of Shakespeare’s plays by Anna Cetera-Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) 7. ‘From migration to naturalisation: Shakespeare in Russia by Marina P. Kizima (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia) 8. Trade routes, politics and culture: Shakespeare in Sweden by Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 9. The mirror and the razor: Shakespeare’s arrival in Spain by Keith Gregor (University of Murcia, Spain) 10. Migrating with migrants: Shakespeare and the Armenian diaspora by Jasmine Seymour (Armenian Shakespeare Association) 11. Shakespeare in Greece: from Athens to Constantinople and beyond by Mara Yanni (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Notes References Index
