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Shakespeare and Conflict

A European Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Carla Dente

    1. University of Pisa, Italy

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  2. Sara Soncini

    1. University of Pisa, Italy

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (PASHST)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. General Introduction

    1. General Introduction

      • Carla Dente, Sara Soncini
      Pages 1-14

  3. Conflict in Shakespeare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Introduction

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 17-23

    3. ‘What country, friends, is this?’ The Performance of Conflict in Shakespeare’s Drama of Migration

      • Sabine Schülung
      Pages 24-39

    4. Killing by the Book: Scenes from the Duel Ritual

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 40-54

    5. The War of ‘Nothings’ in The Tragedy of King Lear

      • Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
      Pages 55-67

    6. Conflict and Convergence in Shakespeare’s Wordplay

      • Georgi Niagolov
      Pages 68-78

    7. Stage and Conflict in ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’

      • Boris Drenkov
      Pages 79-91

  4. Conflict through Shakespeare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Introduction

      • Carla Dente
      Pages 95-102

    3. Translating Shakespeare in Sociolinguistic Conflicts: A Preliminary European Study

      • Jesús Tronch-Pérez
      Pages 103-118

    4. Shakespeare and the Continental Avant-Garde through García Lorca’s El público (1930)

      • Juan F. Cerdá
      Pages 119-131

    5. 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
      Pages 132-144

    6. ‘IN THE FEARFUL ARMOUR’: Shakespeare, Heiner Müller and the Wall

      • Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
      Pages 145-156

    7. From Individual Conflict to Interlocking Conflicts: Performing The Merchant of Venice for New European Audiences

      • Francesca Rayner
      Pages 157-169

    8. Cut’n’mix King Lear: Second Generation and Asian-British Identities

      • Alessandra Marino
      Pages 170-183

  5. Shakespeare in Times of Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Introduction

      • Manfred Pfister
      Pages 187-192

    3. Work of National Importance: Shakespeare in Dartmoor

      • Clara Calvo
      Pages 193-208
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About this book

What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pisa, Italy

    Carla Dente, Sara Soncini

About the editors

CLARA CALVO Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain JUAN F. CERDÁ Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain ANNA CETERA Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland BORIS DRENKOV holds a PhD from the University of Munich, Germany MA?GORZATA GRZEGORZEWSKA teaches English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland TON HOENSELAARS Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands ALESSANDRA MARINO Research Associate at The Open University, UK ALESSANDRA MARZOLA Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy MONICA MATEI-CHESNOIU Associate Professor of English Literature at Ovidius University Constanta, Romania GEORGI NIAGOLOV teaches English Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria MANFRED PFISTER formerly Professor of English at the Freie Universität Berlin and member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany PAOLA PUGLIATTI formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Florence, Italy MIGUEL RAMALHETE GOMES FCT Fellow FRANCESCA RAYNER Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal SABINE SCHÜLTING Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany JESÚS TRONCH-PÉREZ Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain

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