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Describes how Shakespeare is taught in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classes in Germany, discussing adaptations, film, and Manga Shakespeare, namely Harlem Duet and Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Manga Edition (both q.v.).
Includes one essay on Shakespeare.
Examines how "family ethics, love ethics, and violence ethics" are "filtered" in order to make animated Shakespeare adaptations more palatable for younger audiences in different cultural circumstances than the plays' original publications. English and Chinese summaries, 44-45.
Traces the impact of siblings Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble on Shakespeare acting, focusing on their early stage ventures including King John and Othello; their productions of Henry VIII and Coriolanus at Drury Lane; their involvement with a stage production of the Shakespeare forgery Vortigern (1796); Kemble's management of Covent Garden theatre and the OP (Old Price) riots during a performance of Macbeth; and both of their performances as Hamlet. Includes an appendix of "Siddons's and Kemble's performances together in London," 165-73.
Offers a history of the Stratford Festival of Canada, founded by Tom Patterson. Outlines moments of development with different artistic directors, including Tyrone Guthrie, Michael Langham, Jean Gascon, John Hirsch, Robin Phillips, John Neville, David William, Richard Monette, Des McAnuff, and Antoni Cimolino. Describes history of Hamlet and Tempest at Stratford. Considers impact of actors such as Martha Henry, Alec Guinness, William Hutt, Seana McKenna, Marti Maraden, Stephen Ouimette, Christopher Plummer, and Colm Feore and of designers such as Tanya Moiseiwitsch.
Diagnoses Iago with borderline personality disorder, King Lear with neurosis, and Hamlet with "irrepressible rage" caused by depression.
Suggests that "Shakespeare is drawn more to the meta-theatrical use of dreams in his comedies and romantic tragedies...whereas the more somber signification of dreams as otherworldly warning is more appropriate to English history plays and ... history based traged[ies]." Draws extensively on Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III.
Includes two essays on Shakespeare.
Presents moments in Winter's Tale as "play-grounds" that highlight open-endedness in Shakespeare. English summary, 55.
Includes one essay on Shakespeare.