Acknowledgements
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