Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance

Aneta Mancewicz is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. She works on Shakespearean performance, intermediality, and European theatre. Her book publications include Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Biedny Hamlet [Poor Hamlet] (2010).  Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute. She held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick, UK. At Middlebury College, she holds the John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

• 1. Introduction.- 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.- 3. The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare.- 4. Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet.- Part II Myths of Local Identities and Global Icons.- 5. Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a “German Shakespeare”.- 6. Shakespeare Beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective.- 7. “Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question”: Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.- Part III Myths of Political Shakespeare.- 8. Hamlet and the Fall of Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance.- 9. Denmark’s a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet After 1989 in Lin Zhaohua’s Hamulaite and Jan Klata’s H.- 10. Hamlet in Times of War: Two Appropriations of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.- 11. “Come, Let’s Away to Prison”: Local and Global Myths, and “Political Shakespeare” in Twenty-First Century Russia.- Part IV Shakespeare as Myth in Commercial and Popular Culture.- 12. Localizing a Global Myth: Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear.- 13. Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations.- 14. The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today’s Japanese Stage.- 15. Afterword: Shakespeare and Myth.