Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Keinanen, Nely; Sivefors, Per

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Produktbeschreibung

Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth and the differing translations of Hamlet into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re-working of King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge's performances in Stockholm as Othello and Shylock, it will appeal to all those interested in the reception of Shakespeare and its relationship to the political and social conditions. The volume intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like 'rhizome', which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of 'centre' versus 'periphery'. It offers a new assessment of these notions, revealing how the dissemination of Shakespeare is determined by a series of local and frequently interlocking centres and peripheries, such as the Finnish relation to Russia or the Norwegian relation with Sweden, rather than a matter of influence from the English Cultural Sphere.

Produktdetails

• Global Shakespeare Inverted
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 128mm x 198mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781350201019
• ISBN-10: 1350201014
• Artikelnr.: 65696115

Autorenporträt

Nely Keinänen is a lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland, researching the early reception of Shakespeare in Finland. She is on the board of the Nordic Shakespeare Society (NorSS). Per Sivefors is Associate Professor of English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published extensively on early modern literature and culture and is currently working on the early reception of Shakespeare in Scandinavia (1760 - 1820). He is Chair of the Nordic Shakespeare Society (NorSS).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction
Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors 1: The First Danish Production of Hamlet
(1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis Annelis Kuhlmann
(Aarhus University, Denmark) 2: Geijer's Macbeth - Page, Stage and the
Seeds of Time Kiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hägglund
(Stockholm University, Sweden) 3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in
Translation and Transition in Hamlet Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley (Uppsala
University, Sweden) 4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of
Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall's Ruunulinna Jyrki Nummi,
Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland)
5: Søren Kierkegaard's Adaptation Of King Lear James Newlin (Case Western
Reserve University, USA) 6: 'A blot on Swedish hospitality': Ira Aldridge's
Visit to Stockholm in 1857 Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 7:
Shakespeare's Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi's Drama Karkurit
[The Fugitives] Riitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland) 8:
Anne Charlotte Leffler's Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday
Life Lynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA) 9: Knut Hamsun's
Criticism of Shakespeare Martin Humpál (Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic) Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of Culture Alexa Alice
Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare
until 1900: A Timeline Index