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Through the great diversity of topics and methodologies the essays in this volume make a seminal contribution to an under-researched field at the intersection of literary and cultural criticism, comparative literature, and theatre as well as translation studies. The essays cover a wide range of texts from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. From a broad variety of perspectives the exchange between drama and theatre of the Anglophone and the Germanophone worlds and their mutual influence are explored. While there is a focus on the successful or unsuccessful bridging of the cultural gaps, due consideration is given to the nexus between intercultural translation and mise en scène as well as the intricacies of intermedial reshaping. Always placing the analyses within the political and socio-historical contexts the essays make an innovative contribution to the aesthetics of Anglo-German theatrical exchange as well as to European cultural history.

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No reader is likely to put this book down without having learned something interesting and important about the history of the theatre in the British Isles and the German-speaking world. And if there is one respect in which this book can be said to be more than the sum of its parts, it is because of the way in which it broadens and deepens the idea of theatrical exchange. In that sense it greatly enriches the study of cultural relations and helps to point the way to the future. - Robert Gillett, Queen Mary University London in Angermion, (2016) Vol. 9 pp. 176-181

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