Description
For its eighteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from among the most active and insightful scholars in the field, from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship, and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist guest editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts.
Table of Contents
Part I: Soviet Shakespeare: Guest Editor
1 Introduction: Shakespeare After the October Revolution
Natalia Khomenko
Early Soviet Context
2 Ivan Aksenov and Soviet Shakespeare
Aleksei Semenenko
3 Stalin and Shakespeare
Irena R. Makaryk
4 Shakespeare, Formalism, and Socialist Realism: The Censured Hamlets of Mikhail Chekhov and Nikolai Akimov
Kim Axline Morgan
Late Soviet Context
5 Feeling Love in Soviet Russia: The Slippery Lessons of Romeo and Juliet
Natalia Khomenko
6 Hamlet’s Soviet Operatic Afterlife: Between Individuality and Allegory
Michelle Assay
Soviet but Not Russian: Language and National Identity
7 Negotiating With the Socialist Realist Discourse: The Case of Romanian Shakespeare Scholarship
Madalina Nicolaescu
8 WHO IZ HOO ΣND WHAT IZ WATT? Between ΣFΣZ, CCCP and USSR
Jana B. Wild
The Soviet Past After the Collapse
9 Laughing at Tragedy: Elena Chizhova’s Critique of Popular Shakespeare
Sabina Amanbayeva
10 Anti-Stratfordianism in Twentieth-Century Russia: Post-Soviet Melancholy and the Haunted Imagination
Vladimir Makarov
Part II
11 Madness and Metaphor in Lisa Klein’s and Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia
Tom Ue12. Innovation and Retrospection: Some Books About Shakespeare and His Times, 2015–2016
John Mucciolo
