highly successful production was the company’s first Shakespeare play. Bergman approached The Dream by alerting youthful Swedish audiences of the late 1980s to the emotional complications and societal issues that linked Shakespeare to modern Swedes
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An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003
Robert Lyons
Biography and Shakespeare’s Money
Portraits of an Economic Persona
Paola Pugliatti
corpus of texts that constitutes Shakespearean biography is simply ignored by the theoretical debate that has flourished since the 1980s. 12 Is this because writing a biography of Shakespeare is a self-justifying gesture? Or is it because the variety of
The True Story of Gundagai’s Dog on the Tuckerbox
Tourists, Truth, and the Insouciance of Souvenirs
Richard White
-distance family driving holiday ( White 2005 ), from the 1950s to the 1980s, when the Hume Highway offered the cheapest and most convenient means of traveling between Sydney and Melbourne. As the long family car trip lost much of its appeal and as domestic
Mohamed Enani
readers and translators paid relatively little attention to the sonnets, the past generation has brought a flurry of efforts. About six translations of the sonnets, each nearly complete, have appeared since the 1980s. 1 Each one tries to reproduce the
Beyond Colonial Tropes
Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine
Samer Al-Saber
rehearsal, and in performance brought the audience closer to the story and its characters. 23 Hijazi said his intercultural approach to the text was inspired by a Midsummer production he saw at the Mülheim festival in Germany in the late 1980s, during his
Donald H. Holly Jr.
share a common ancestor—the inquisitive tourist ( see Crick 1995 ; Frankland 1999: 71 ). Ethnographic writing has been subject to close reading since at least the postmodern turn in the field in the 1980s ( see Bruner 1986 ; Clifford 1988 ; Clifford
Offshore Desires
Mobility, Liquidity and History in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
Rui Carvalho Homem
since the 1980s, sometimes under the name of ‘spatiality studies’ – drawing on prior contributions ranging from phenomenology and existentialism through structuralism to theories of post- or late modernity. Despite the variousness of their intellectual
The Quest for the Sonnet
The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry
Kamal Abu-Deeb
Epilogue (For the English Version of the Study) Sometime in the mid-1980s, I was working on a paper to be delivered at an international conference on the impact of Arabic literature on Western literatures. As I explored various possibilities
The Corpus of London
(Dis)covering the Victorian City
David W. Chapman
may continue to exist in memory—we instruct our friends to “turn left where the old Holiday Inn used to be.” We recognize the effect of time on the city—the urban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, the revitalization of the city center in the 1980s and
Shakespeare and War
Honour at the Stake
Patrick Gray
September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, Shakespeare studies in the United States had been dominated by the aims, assumptions and methods of New Historicism. From an American perspective, these decades were a time of relative peace