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Title:
"Ivan Turgenev: The Reader of Shakespeare's Predecessors by Ludwig Tieck (Based on Turgenev's Family Library Materials"
Author:
Volkov, Ivan O..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2018
Annotation:

Explores Ivan Turgenev's fascination with Ludwig Tieck's Shakespeare's Predecessors (1823-29) and its Romantic "aesthetic manifesto of German culture," which encouraged him to reconsider his own engagement with Shakespeare's work. Russian summary, 5; English summary, 11.

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"Pyotr Gnedich as a translator and director of Shakespeare's plays in Russia in the 1880s–1910s"
Author:
Zhatkin, D. N.; Serdechnaia, Vera V..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2025
Annotation:

Traces the arc of Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich's career as a Russian Shakespeare translator for stage and publication. Suggests Gnedich's concern with accuracy and meter set the bar for measuring future Soviet Shakespeare translations. Russian and English summaries, 206-24.

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"The Project of the 'Shakespeare Encyclopedia' in the Legacy of Sigismund Krzyzhanovsky and the History of the Idea"
Author:
Zhatkin, Dimitri; Serdechnaia, Vera V..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2025
Publication Information:
Text. Book. Publishing. (Tomsk) 37 (2025): 122–34.
Annotation:

Describes Sigismund Krzyzhanovsky's never-published "Shakesepare Encyclopedia" (1936) and its study of Shakespeare's life and times in the context of Russian Shakespeare studies. Russian and English summaries, 122-23.

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"White Christmas Pie, 'smooth as monumental alabaster': The Past and Future Politics of Shakespearean Cookbooks"
Author:
Weber, Breanne.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2025
Publication Information:
Journal of Early Modern Studies 14 (2025): 197–212.
Annotation:

Contends that the Seton Guild's Shakespearean cookbook, As You Like It (Maryland, 1959) deploys "Shakespearean aesthetics" and "curates political agendas that ostracize those who do not belong to the communities of (mostly white, upper-class) women who compiled them."

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Title:
"How Much Does a First Folio Cost and How Much is That?"
Author:
Smith, Emma.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2025
Publication Information:
Journal of Early Modern Studies 14 (2025): 105–17.
Annotation:

Considers how to calculate historical costs and monetary equivalencies for book prices. Contends that thinking about early value of first folio needs to move beyond "supply-side explanation[s]." Traces provenance of copies of the first folio to "booklover[s]" who also owned slaves, showing overlap between "bibliophile Roxburgh club and anti-abolitionist interests."

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Title:
Heinz-Uwe Haus and Theatre Making in Cyprus and Greece
Author:
Haus, Heinz-Uwe; Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel, editors.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. xvi + 384
Annotation:

Includes Heinz-Uwe Haus's thoughts on his production of Measure for Measure (Nicosia, 1976; Thessaloniki, 1983). Describes Haus's presentation on Measure for Measure (Weimar, 1976), offering an excerpt from Günther Klotz's annual report of of the conference in Weimar and a translation of Nicos Shiafkalis's "Shakespeare and Cyprus" (q.v.). Offers Haus's presentation "Audience Proximity for Hamlet (Kaiserslautern, 1989; Nicosia 1990) with commentary from August Everding, Georg Gölter, and Andreos Filipou. Lists Haus's productions in Cyprus and Greece.

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Title:
Tragedy and Philosophy: A Parallel History
Author:
Heller, Agnes.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. viii + 125
Annotation:

Positions Shakespeare as a "theorist of tragedy," considering the role of history, God, and human nature in his tragedies. Puts Shakspeare's plays in dialogue with philosophical texts, other literary tragedies, and dramatic conventions. Published posthumously; edited by John Grumley, David Roberts, and Pauline Johnson, with introduction by Grumley and Roberts.

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Title:
"'Our Blackamoor or Negro Othello': Rejecting the Affective Power of Blackness"
Author:
Makonnen, Atesede.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2018
Publication Information:
European Romantic Review 29, no. 3 (2018): 347–55.
Annotation:

Argues that Edmund Kean's "groundbreaking 'tawny' Othello" reflected nineteenth-century anxieties about race and beliefs that Othello could not be black because of his station and character. Points to history of "bleached" Othello and suggests Kean's "whitened Othello in 1814 set a precedent for what blackness could mean on the stage" that we must still work to dismantle today.

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