Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries
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Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

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Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

About this book

Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth and the differing translations of Hamlet into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re-working of King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge's performances in Stockholm as Othello and Shylock, it will appeal to all those interested in the reception of Shakespeare and its relationship to the political and social conditions. The volume intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like 'rhizome', which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of 'centre' versus 'periphery'. It offers a new assessment of these notions, revealing how the dissemination of Shakespeare is determined by a series of local and frequently interlocking centres and peripheries, such as the Finnish relation to Russia or the Norwegian relation with Sweden, rather than a matter of influence from the English Cultural Sphere.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The first Danish production of Hamlet (1813): A theatrical representation of a national crisis
  11. 2 Geijer’s Macbeth – Page, stage and the seeds of time
  12. 3 Cold maids and dead men: Gender in translation and transition in Hamlet
  13. 4 The poetics of adaptation and politics of domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall’s Ruunulinna
  14. 5 Søren Kierkegaard’s adaptation of King Lear
  15. 6 ‘A blot on Swedish hospitality’: Ira Aldridge’s visit to Stockholm in 1857
  16. 7 Shakespeare’s legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi’s drama Karkurit [The Fugitives]
  17. 8 Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Shakespeare: The perils of stardom and everyday life
  18. 9 Knut Hamsun’s criticism of Shakespeare
  19. Afterword: Towards a regional methodology of culture
  20. Appendix: A timeline of significant Shakespeare-related events in the Nordic countries before 1900
  21. Index
  22. Imprint