Foreign Shakespeare

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.