Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

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by  Martin Procházka

Renaissance Shakespeare:
Shakespeare Renaissances
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The International Shakespeare Association
President:
Dame Judi Dench
Honorary Vice presidents:
Werner Habicht, Dieter Mehl
Vice Presidents:
Ann Jennalie Cook (Vanderbilt University)
Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Chair:
Jill L. Levenson (Trinity College, University of Toronto)
Vice Chair:
Tetsuo Kishi (University of Kyoto)
Executive Secretary and Treasurer:
Nick Walton (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Executive Committee:
Carla Calvo (Universidad de Murcia)
Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University)
Raffik Darragi (University of Tunis)
Carla Dente (University of Pisa)
Andreas HÖfele (University of Munich)
Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)
Ton Hoenselaars (University of Utrecht)
Tetsuo Kishi (University of Kyoto)
Akiko Kusunoki (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
Jill L. Levenson (Trinity College, University of Toronto)
Chee Seng Lim (University of Malaya)
Lena Cowen Orlin (Shakespeare Association of America)
Jose O’Shea (Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina)
Roger Pringle (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Martin Procházka (Charles University)
Hanna Scolnicov (Tel-Aviv University)
Congress Committee:
Martin Hilský (Charles University)
Andreas HÖfele (University of Munich)
Ton Hoenselaars (University of Utrecht)
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Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)
Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame)
Christina Jansohn (University of Bamberg)
M.J. Kidnie (University of Western Ontario)
Akiko Kusunoki (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
Chee Seng Lim (University of Malaya)
Kate McKluskie (Shakespeare Institute)
Lena Cowen Orlin (Shakespeare Association of America)
Roger Pringle (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Martin Procházka (Charles University)
Jesús Tronch Pérez (University of Valencia)
Previous volumes of proceedings
Shakespeare: Pattern of Excelling Nature, Shakespeare Criticism in Honor of America’s
Bicentennial from the International Shakespeare Associate Congress, Washington,
D.C., April 1976, ed. David Bevington and Jay L. Halio (Newark: University of
Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1978).
Shakespeare, Man of the Theater, Proceedings of the Second Congress of the Interna-
tional Shakespeare Association, 1981, ed. Kenneth Muir, Jay L. Halio, and D. J.
Palmer (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated
University Presses, 1983).
Images of Shakespeare, Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shake-
speare Association, 1986, ed. Werner Habicht, D. J. Palmer, and Roger Pringle
(Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated Univer-
sity Presses, 1988).
Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions, The Selected Proceedings of the International
Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991, ed. Tetsuo Kishi, Roger
Pringle, and Stanley Wells (Newark, University of Delaware Press; London and
Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994).
Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century, The Selected Proceedings of the International
Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996, ed. Jonathan Bate,
Jill L. Levenson, and Dieter Mehl (Newark: University of Delaware Press; Lon-
don: Associated University Presses, 1998).
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean, the Selected Proceedings of the International
Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001, ed. Tom Clayton, Susan
Brock, and Vicente Forés (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004).
Shakespeare World/World of Shakespeare, The Selected Proceedings of the Interna-
tional Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane 2006, ed. Richard Foth-
eringham, Christa Janshohn, and R. S. White (Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 2008).
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Renaissance Shakespeare:
Shakespeare Renaissances
Proceedings of the Ninth World
Shakespeare Congress
Edited by Martin Procházka, Michael Dobson,
Andreas HÖfele, and Hanna Scolnicov
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World Shakespeare Congress (9th : 2011 : Prague, Czech Republic)
Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances : Proceedings of the Ninth World
Shakespeare Congress / edited by Martin Procházka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele,
and Hanna Scolnicov.
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Contents
Foreword by Jill L. Levenson xi
PART I: RENAISSANCE SHAKESPEARE:
INTERPRETATIONS, PERFORMANCE, AND CONTEXTS
1 Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance 3
Stanley Wells
Interpretations
2 Talbot, Incorporated 21
Joel Rodgers
3 Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion 29
Elizabeth Pentland
4 Ecology, Evolution, and Hamlet 38
Randall Martin
5 The Anticipatory Premise of History in the Reception of
Shakespeare’s Sonnets 51
Robert Darcy
6 The Balance of Power in King Lear’s Kingdoms 60
Atsuhiko Hirota
7 “Here’s a Strange Alteration”: Contagion and the Mutable Mind
in Coriolanus 68
Darryl Chalk
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viii Contents
8 Making Visible: Afterlives in Shakespeare’s Pericles 77
Supriya Chaudhuri
9 A Legal Assessment of the Circumstantial Evidence in The Winter’s Tale 88
Kimberly R. West
10 S hakespeare’s Lost Pastorals 96
Sukanta Chaudhuri
Performance
11 S hakespeare and Festival 105
Margaret Shewring
12 Using On-Screen Modeling to Examine Shakespearean
Stage Performance 115
Richard Fotheringham
13 What Are We Doing When We’re “Doing Shakespeare”?
The Embodied Brain in Theatrical Experience 125
Ros King
Contexts
14 The Queen of Bohemia’s Wedding 135
James J. Marino
15 The Puritan Widow and London Parishes 143
Brian Walsh
16 O ld Repertory, New Theatre: Expectation and Experience in
Christopher Beeston’s Cockpit 151
Eleanor Collins
17 “A Plague o’ These Pickle Herring”: From London Drinkers to
European Stage Clown 159
M. A. Katritzky
PART II: SHAKESPEARE RENAISSANCES:
APPROPRIATIONS, ADAPTATIONS, AND AFTERLIVES
18 Shakespeare’s Theatre of Language: Czech Experience 171
Martin Hilský
19 Directing Shakespeare: The Cold War Years 181
Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kříž, and Robert Sturua
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Contents ix
Appropriations
20 Shakespeare’s Undiplomatic Readers 193
Jean-Christophe Mayer
21 S hakespeare: The Unmaking of a National Poet 204
Balz Engler
22 Shakespeare in Habsburg Transylvania 211
Madalina Nicolaescu
23 B etween the East and the West: Tsubouchi Shoyo’s Production
of Hamlet in 1911 220
Kaori Kobayashi
24 “ The Chap That Writes Like Synge”: Shakespeare at the Abbey Theatre 229
Patrick Lonergan
25 “Ease and Deliciousness”: The Merchant of Venice and the Performance
of Ethical Continuity in National Socialist Germany 238
Zeno Ackermann
26 The Staging of The Merchant of Venice and Othello by Greek
Political Exiles (1951–1953): Shakespeare in Extremis 249
Tina Krontiris
27 Reasoning the Need: Shakespeare Performance in Reunified Berlin 262
Emily Oliver
28 An Anthropology of Italian Theory: Hamlet in Venice 270
Shaul Bassi
29 Robert Lepage among the Huron-Wendat: An(other) Aboriginal
Treatment of La Tempête 279
Barry Freeman
30 Shakespeare and American Bilingualism: Borderland Productions
of Romeo y Julieta 286
Carla Della Gatta
31 The Brazilian Accent of Othello 296
Cristiane Busato Smith
32 Tragedy’s Honor, and Ours 306
Sharon O’Dair
Adaptations
33 The Politics of Rape in Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear, 1681 317
Emma Depledge
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