Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance

CONTENTS



0. Preface



1. Introduction. Alexa Alice Joubin and Aneta Mancewicz







Part I Myths of Linguistic Transcendence, Authenticity, Universality



2. "Europe speaks Shakespeare" - Karin Beier's 1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Multilingual Performance and the Myth of Shakespeare's Linguistic Transcendence. Bettina Boecker



3. The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare. Marcela Kostihova



4. Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet. Kevin A. Quarmby







Part II Myths of Local Identities and Global Icons



5. Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a "German Shakespeare." Dan Venning



6. Shakespeare beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective. Benedict Schofield



7. "Tupi or not tupi, that is the question": Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Anna Stegh Camati







Part III Myths of Political Shakespeare



8. Hamlet and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance. Emily Oliver



9. Denmark's a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet after 1989 in Lin Zhaohua's Hamulaite and Jan Klata's H. Saffron Vickers Walkling



10. Hamlet in Times of War - Two Appropriations of Shakespeare's Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Alexandra Portmann



11. "Come, let's away to prison": Local and Global Myths, and "Political Shakespeare" in Twenty-First Century Russia. Aleksandra Sakowska







Part IV Shakespeare as Myth in Commercial and Popular Culture



12. Localising a Global Myth - Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear. Kinga Foeldvary



13. Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations.



Frank Widar Brevik



14. The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today's Japanese Stage. Ryuta Minami







Afterword



15. Shakespeare and Myth. Michael Dobson