William R. Rampone, Jr. is Professor of English at South Carolina State University, USA. Eric S. Mallin is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Introduction by Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and William R. Rampone, Jr. (South Carolina State University, USA) I. Social and ethical responsibilities1. Leave the Brits, take the Shakespeare: Echoing King Lear, Banishing British Blood, and Indigenizing Shakespeare in 36 Chowringhee LaneMelissa Croteau (California Baptist University, USA)2. Upon a Wheel of Fire’: King Lear and Social ReparationAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)3. Populism with a distinctly macho flavor: a contemporary King Lear in a Post-Communist context Gabriella Reuss (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)II. Aging, death, and citizenship4. Institute of English Studies; “The Spectres of Lear: Shakespeare’s Apocalyptic Tragedy in Selected Polish Theatre Productions”Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)5. Indian Lears, Aging, and CultureParomita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University, India)6. Masahiro Kobayashi’s Lear on the Beach: Tatsuya Nakadai and the Modern Issue of Aging in JapanHisao Oshima (Kyushu University, Japan)III. Lear’s theatres and metatheatricality7. The Transformation of King Lear in the Process of Huaju SinicizationJing Li (Peking University, China)8. Lear’s Death—a tragicomedy on the Hungarian StageAgnes Matuska (University of Szeged, Hungary)9. The Last Lear: Stagecraft, Cinema, and the Crisis of RepresentationAmrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)10. Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream, a Peking Opera Zhang Qiong (Fudan University, China)IV. Cross-Cultural encounters and the drama of ideas11. Productions of King Lear on German Stages in the late Eighteenth Century Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)12. Fathers, Daughters, and Absent Mothers: Power and Gender in Kishida Rio’s Lear Colleen Lanki (University of British Columbia, Canada)13. Beyond Pragmatism: Apocalypse, Adaptation, and Historicity in King Lear and Some of its Czech VersionsMartin Procházka (Charles University, Czech Republic)Index

William R. Rampone, Jr. is Professor of English at South Carolina State University, USA. Eric S. Mallin is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Introduction by Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and William R. Rampone, Jr. (South Carolina State University, USA) I. Social and ethical responsibilities1. Leave the Brits, take the Shakespeare: Echoing King Lear, Banishing British Blood, and Indigenizing Shakespeare in 36 Chowringhee LaneMelissa Croteau (California Baptist University, USA)2. Upon a Wheel of Fire’: King Lear and Social ReparationAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)3. Populism with a distinctly macho flavor: a contemporary King Lear in a Post-Communist context Gabriella Reuss (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)II. Aging, death, and citizenship4. Institute of English Studies; “The Spectres of Lear: Shakespeare’s Apocalyptic Tragedy in Selected Polish Theatre Productions”Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)5. Indian Lears, Aging, and CultureParomita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University, India)6. Masahiro Kobayashi’s Lear on the Beach: Tatsuya Nakadai and the Modern Issue of Aging in JapanHisao Oshima (Kyushu University, Japan)III. Lear’s theatres and metatheatricality7. The Transformation of King Lear in the Process of Huaju SinicizationJing Li (Peking University, China)8. Lear’s Death—a tragicomedy on the Hungarian StageAgnes Matuska (University of Szeged, Hungary)9. The Last Lear: Stagecraft, Cinema, and the Crisis of RepresentationAmrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)10. Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream, a Peking Opera Zhang Qiong (Fudan University, China)IV. Cross-Cultural encounters and the drama of ideas11. Productions of King Lear on German Stages in the late Eighteenth Century Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)12. Fathers, Daughters, and Absent Mothers: Power and Gender in Kishida Rio’s Lear Colleen Lanki (University of British Columbia, Canada)13. Beyond Pragmatism: Apocalypse, Adaptation, and Historicity in King Lear and Some of its Czech VersionsMartin Procházka (Charles University, Czech Republic)Index