Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780230343276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 275 str.

Carla Dente

Opis

What are Shakespeare's uses of the conceptual space of conflict? And what has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of the Shakespeare myth, and in its European and then global spread? This collection looks, from a truly pan-European vantage point, at the variety of conflictive and conflicting dimensions embedded in Shakespeare's texts (Part I); at the way Shakespeare's universe of discourse has been enlisted to address and dramatize conflicts of a socio-political, cultural or aesthetic nature (Part II); and at how Shakespearean meanings have been renegotiated through reception and reproduction in actual historical contexts of strife or outright belligerence (Part III). The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from the original studies gathered here provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.

Spis treści

List Of Figures Acknowledgements Notes On Contributors Foreword; T.Hoenselaars General Introduction; C.Dente & S.Soncini PART I: CONFLICT IN SHAKESPEARE Introduction; P.Pugliatti 'What Country, Friends, Is This?': The Performance Of Conflict In Shakespeare's Drama Of Migration; S.Schülting Killing By The Book: Scenes From The Duel Ritual; P.Pugliatti The War Of 'Nothings' In The Tragedy Of King Lear; M.Grzegorzewska Conflict And Convergence In Shakespeare's Wordplay; G.Niagolov Stage And Conflict In The Phoenix And The Turtle; B.Drenkov PART II: CONFLICT THROUGH SHAKESPEARE Introduction; C.Dente Translating Shakespeare In Sociolinguistic Conflicts: A Preliminary European Study; J.Tronch-Pérez Shakespeare And The Continental Avant-Garde Through García Lorca's El Público (1930); J.F.Cerdá Negotiating The Memory Of The People's War: Hamlet And The Ghosts Of Welfare In A Diary For Timothy By Humphrey Jennings (1944-45); A.Marzola 'In The Fearful Armour': Shakespeare, Heiner Müller And The Wall; M.R.Gomes From Individual Conflict To Interlocking Conflicts: Performing The Merchant Of Venice For New European Audiences; F.Rayner Cut 'N' Mix King Lear: Second Generation And Asian-British Identities; A.Marino PART III: SHAKESPEARE IN TIMES OF CONFLICT Introduction; M.Pfister Work Of National Importance: Shakespeare In Dartmoor; C.Calvo 'The Play's The Thing': Hamlet In A Romanian Wartime Political Prison; M.Matei-Chesnoiu 'A Tongue In Every Wound Of Caesar': Performing Julius Caesar Behind Barbed Wire During The Second World War; T.Hoenselaars 'And, By Opposing, End Them': The Rhetoric Of Translators' Polemics; A.Cetera Shakespeare's Sonnets De Profundis; M.Pfister Selected Bibliography Index

O autorze

CLARA CALVO Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain JUAN F. CERDÁ Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain ANNA CETERA Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland BORIS DRENKOV holds a PhD from the University of Munich, Germany MA?GORZATA GRZEGORZEWSKA teaches English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland TON HOENSELAARS Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands ALESSANDRA MARINO Research Associate at The Open University, UK ALESSANDRA MARZOLA Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy MONICA MATEI-CHESNOIU Associate Professor of English Literature at Ovidius University Constanta, Romania GEORGI NIAGOLOV teaches English Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria MANFRED PFISTER formerly Professor of English at the Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany PAOLA PUGLIATTI formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy MIGUEL RAMALHETE GOMES FCT Fellow FRANCESCA RAYNER Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal SABINE SCHÜLTING Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany JESÚS TRONCH-PÉREZ Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain