Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective

8vo, Hardcover, xx + 275 pages, Contents: Foreword by Ton Hoenselaars; General Introduction; Part I. Conflict In Shakespeare 1. Introduction / Paola Pugliatti 2. 'What Country, Friends, Is This?': The Performance of Conflict in Shakespeare's Drama of Migration / Sabine Sch¸lting 3. Killing by the Book: Scenes from the Duel Ritual / Paola Pugliatti 4. War of 'Nothings' in The Tragedy of King Lear / Malgorzata Grzegorzewska 5. Conflict and Convergence in Shakespeare's Wordplay / Georgi Niagolov 6. Stage and Conflict in The Phoenix and the Turtle / Boris Drenkov; Part II. Conflict Through Shakespeare 7. Introduction / Carla Dente 8. Translating Shakespeare in Sociolinguistic Conflicts: A Preliminary European Study / Jesus Tronch-Perez 9. Shakespeare and the Continental Avant-Garde Through GarcÌa Lorca's El P˙blico (1930) / Juan F. Cerda 10. Negotiating the Memory of the People's War: Hamlet and the Ghosts of Welfare in A Diary for Timothy by Humphrey Jennings (1944-45) / Alessandra Marzola 11. 'In the Fearful Armour': Shakespeare, Heiner M¸ller and the Wall / Miguel Ramalhete Gomes 12. From Individual Conflict to Interlocking Conflicts: Performing The Merchant of Venice for New European Audiences / Francesca Rayner 13. Cut 'n' Mix King Lear: Second Generation and Asian-British Identities / Alessandra Marino; Part III. Shakespeare in Times of Conflict 14. Introduction / Manfred Pfister 15. Work of National Importance: Shakespeare in Dartmoor / Clara Calvo 16. 'The Play's the Thing': Hamlet in a Romanian Wartime Political Prison / Monica Matei-Chesnoiu 17. 'A Tongue in Every Wound of Caesar': Performing Julius Caesar Behind Barbed Wire During the Second World War / Ton Hoenselaars 18. 'And, by Opposing, End Them': The Rhetoric of Translators' Polemics / Anna Cetera 19. Shakespeare's Sonnets de profundis / Manfred Pfister; Selected Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.