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Includes five essays on Shakespeare.
"Develop[s] Emerson’s transcendental philosophy as a tragic philosophy" in order to interpret King Lear. "Examine[s] how Cordelia’s silence
creates the conditions for shame" and explores significance of nature and nothing, arguing that Lear is Shakespeare's most tragic work.
Explains that mirror imagery in Richard II represents the "mirror of perfect princes" ("speculum principis"), following the Christian tradition. Builds on Ernst Kantorowicz's theories of the king's two bodies and "magic mirrors." English and Romanian summaries, 111-12.
Traces chameleon imagery in Shakespeare's works and shows how Shakespeare has been compared to a chameleon to emphasize his "poetic indeterminacy" and "opportunistic versatility of identity." Suggests that Romantic understandings of artists, including Shakespeare, deployed "generative ... zoological analog[ies]." English and Romanian summaries, 251-52.
Analyzes Kostos Ostrauskas's works about Shakespeare, including "Stratfordo sodininkas ("The Gardener from Stratford", 1996), Shakespeariana (1999-2001)," (both qv. in Užgavėnių kaukės) and "Žemaitė sutinka Sekspyra ("Žemaitė Meets Shakespeare", 2006)" (q.v.). Argues that "Ostrauskas parodises [sic] Shakespeare, challenges his authority, and comes forward not only as his successor, but, above all, as his reader." English summary, 225.
Outlines three ways Ostrauskas's play Shakespeariana playfully rewrites Hamlet: 1. through parody and reducing meaning; 2. "completing its logical sequence of events" and 3. "meta-linguistic and meta-literary interpretation." English and Lithuanian summaries, 45.
Explores Lithuanian postmodernist and absurdist writer Kostas Ostrauskas's Žemaitė sutinka Šekspyrą [Žemaitė Meets Shakespeare] (q.v.) as part of playwright's "continu[ing] ... dialogue with one of the most constant partners, Shakespeare." English summary, 190; Lithuanian summary, 117.
Script of play about two turn-of-the-century Lithuanian writers (Povilas Višinskis and Žemaitė) corresponding about Shakespeare. First performed 2006. Republished in Ostrauskas, Paskutinis kvartetas [The Last Quartet] (Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2014).
Traces Shakespeare's influence on Lithuanian literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on poetry and drama from the neo-romantic, modernist, and postmodernist eras. Bookends description of history by turning to Kostas Ostrauskas’s absurdist play Žemaitė sutinka Šekspyrą [Žemaitė Meets Shakespeare] (performed 2006, published 2008, q.v.), which is based on two Lithuanian writers, Povilas Višinskis and Žemaitė discussing Shakespeare’s works in their letters at the turn of the twentieth century. Positions Shakespeare as "one of the most important sources" for postmodern Lithuanian literature. English summary, 366.
Argues that Merchant of Venice exemplifies early modern society's preoccupation with class, "consumption, fear of poverty, and social justice/injustice," and ultimately demonstrates the pitfalls of capitalism. English summary, 67.