Preface
Contributors
Introduction
I. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY
1 From the unlove of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet without the Prince: a Shakespearean mirror held up to the fortunes of new Bulgaria Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova
2 Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after Thomas Sorge
II. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND?
3 Hamlets made in Germany, East and West Manfred Pfister
4 'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe Robin Headlam Wells
III. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS
5 Shakespearean nationhoods Jonathan Bate
6 'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation Nicholas Potter
IV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST
7 Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics Martin Hilsky
8 Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945 Marta Gibinska
9 Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V Tom Healy
10 Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me Terence Hawkes
V. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE
11 Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will Rafael Portillo and Manuel Gomez-Lara
12 'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history Mark Sokolyansky
VI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS
13 Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home Odette-Irenne Blumenfeld
14 Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage Evgenia Pancheva
15 Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia Janja Ciglar-Zanic
VII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM
16 Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge of tribalism Harriett Hawkins
17 'Perplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe James Siemon
18 The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in Cymbeline Erica Sheen
19 Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe Thomas Sorge
VIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING
20 Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Burt
21 Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions Michael Hattaway
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