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Title:
"'The rest is silence': Censorship and Conflicting Memory Politics in Ljubiša Georgievski's Hamlet, 1989"
Author:
Portmann, Alexandra.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2018
Publication Information:
Contemporary Southeastern Europe 5, no. 2 (2018): 58–69.
Annotation:

Shows how Ljubiša Georgievski's Hamlet (q.v.) as "memory politics" and "political theatre" speaking to turmoil in "former Yugoslavia in the 1980s and early 1990s."

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Title:
["Look, it gives us the power to be an artists, when we only want to be human: Gamllet by Slobodan Šnajder on Yugoslav Scenes"]
Author:
Portmann, Alexandra.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2012
Publication Information:
Theatron, no. 160-161 (2012): 59–68. (https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=759650)
Annotation:

Takes "reception-related aesthetic approac[h]" to "cultural analysis" of Slobodan Šnajder's Gamllet. English and Serbian summaries, 59. Translation of title, online.

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Title:
"Shakespeare and the 'Tragedy' of the Renaissance"
Author:
Kirkpatrick, Robin.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2010
Annotation:

Suggests that with Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare "debunk[s] the excesses of humanist eloquence" and offers theatre as a "new resource." Considers falseness and entertainment in Troilus and Cressida. Contends that Cymbeline asserts a continuity between the middle ages and Shakespeare's England. Argues that Othello "is concerned not with the squalid distortions of sins such as jealousy, but rather with the perception of human excellence."

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Title:
"Emotion, Performance, and Gender in Shakespeare's Hamlet"
Author:
Steenbergh, Kristine.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2011
Annotation:

Argues that Hamlet "contrasts two different models of the relation between the outward performance of emotion and the experience of it." Considers "acted passion" in terms of revenge tragedy tradition. English summary, 93.

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Title:
Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author:
Kugler, Emily M. N..
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2012
Publication Information:
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. xii + 212
Annotation:

Links "emerging sense of English power within an Ottoman context to the rise of William Shakespeare in the popular imagination as a representative of English cultural greatness." "Explores ... representations of race, religion, and class" in Shakespeare's sources (Cinthio), King James's herioc poem "Othello: The Lepanto," eighteenth-century adaptations, and performances by David Garrick and John Philip Kemble.

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Title:
Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern AgeThe Aesthetics of Evidence
Author:
Plett, Heinrich F..
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2012
Publication Information:
Leiden and Boston: Brill. xii + 240
Annotation:

Considers enargaeia (vivid descriptions) in Shakespeare's works including Antony and CleopatraTempestHamlet, Winter's Tale, and Rape of Lucrece in terms of verisimilitude and decorum, truth, and "imaginary presence."

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