Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Europe Speaks Shakespeare”: Karin Beier’s 1996 A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Multilingual Performance and the Myth of Shakespeare’s Linguistic Transcendence

Chapter 3 The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare

Chapter 4 Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet

Chapter 5 Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a “German Shakespeare”

Chapter 6 Shakespeare Beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective

Chapter 7 “Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question”: Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Chapter 8 Hamlet and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance

Chapter 9 Denmark’s a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet After 1989 in Lin Zhaohua’s Hamulaite and Jan Klata’s H.

Chapter 10 Hamlet in Times of War: Two Appropriations of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s

Chapter 11 “Come, Let’s Away to Prison”: Local and Global Myths, and “Political Shakespeare” in Twenty-First-Century Russia

Chapter 12 Localizing a Global Myth: Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear

Chapter 13 Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations

Chapter 14 The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today’s Japanese Stage

Chapter 15 Afterword: Shakespeare and Myth