Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance Book

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction. Shakespeare without his language Dennis Kennedy;

Part I. The Foreignness of Shakespeare:

1. Foreign Shakespeare and English-speaking audiences John Russell Brown;
2. Titus Resartus: Warner, Stein and Mesguich have a cut at Titus Andronicus Dominique Goy-Blanquet;
3. Transformations of authenticity: The Merchant of Venice in Israel Avraham Oz;
4. Translation and mise en scène: the example of contemporary French Shakespeare Leanore Lieblein;
5. Audience, style and language in the Shakespeare of Peter Zadek Ron Engle;

Part II. Political and National Appropriations:
6. Brecht and beyond: Shakespeare on the East German stage Lawrence Guntner;
7. Theatrical continuities in Giorgio Strehler's The Tempest Pia Kleber;
8. Between the curtain and the grave: The Taganka in the Hamlet Gulag Spencer Golub;
9. Woman scorned: Antony and Cleopatra at Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre Irena R. Makaryk;
10. Hamlet in postwar Czech theatre Jarka Burian;

Part III. Postmodern Shakespeare:
11. Daniel Mesguich and intertextual Shakespeare Marvin Carlson;
12. Word into image: notes on the scenography of recent German productions Wilhelm Hortmann;
13. Shakespeare and the Japanese stage Andrea J. Nouryeh;
14. Wilson, Brook, Zadek: an intercultural encounter? Patrice Pavis; Afterword: Shakespearean Orientalism Dennis Kennedy; Index.