Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries : Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Nely Keinanen and Per Sivefors 1: The First Danish Production of Hamlet (1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2: Geijer's Macbeth - Page, Stage and the Seeds of Time Kiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hagglund (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in Translation and Transition in Hamlet Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley (Uppsala University, Sweden) 4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall's Ruunulinna Jyrki Nummi, Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland) 5: Søren Kierkegaard's Adaptation Of King Lear James Newlin (Case Western Reserve University, USA) 6: 'A blot on Swedish hospitality': Ira Aldridge's Visit to Stockholm in 1857 Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 7: Shakespeare's Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi's Drama Karkurit [The Fugitives] Riitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland) 8: Anne Charlotte Leffler's Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday Life Lynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA) 9: Knut Hamsun's Criticism of Shakespeare Martin Humpal (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of Culture Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A Timeline Index