Overview
"This book traces and examines ""Hamlet"" in translation, performance and cultural adaptation in Romania. The book transcends national boundaries - linguistic and theatrical - and completes the understanding of Shakespeare and ""Hamlet"" in a global context at a time when the page and the stage life of this play has entered a new Renaissance. It explores the symbiotic relationship between Romanian Hamlet, which has always been historically situated, and Romanian history, which has always been theatrically situated. That ""Hamlet"" is the magnifying glass Romania used to explore its history is no coincidence. Time and again, the play that places, at its centre, thought and a young hero who questions and investigates the past in order to understand what to do in the present, has been the Romanian nation's way, sometimes its only way, to investigate its past, to examine and to think about itself 'in front of itself.' (Esslin, 1976:101). Concerned with performance and its key role in Shakespeare studies, this book reconstructs stage productions - whether from 1884 or 2008 - with the same undivided attention to theatre politics and performativity."
Full Product Details
Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Edition: New ed.
ISBN: 9780773436718
ISBN 10: 0773436715
Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
"""... an excellently researched, informative and lucidly presented study, invaluable to scholars interested in its immediate subject and as a rich source of reference for anyone researching the European reception of Shakespeare."" - Dr. Boika Sokolova University of Notre Dame in England ""... will set a standard for future performances studies in Shakespeare as the reconstruction of cultural memory, not only for Romania but also for the rest of Europe."" - Prof. J. Lawrence Guntner Technical University of Braunschweig"""
... an excellently researched, informative and lucidly presented study, invaluable to scholars interested in its immediate subject and as a rich source of reference for anyone researching the European reception of Shakespeare. - Dr. Boika Sokolova University of Notre Dame in England ... will set a standard for future performances studies in Shakespeare as the reconstruction of cultural memory, not only for Romania but also for the rest of Europe. - Prof. J. Lawrence Guntner Technical University of Braunschweig
