Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Eastern and Central European Studies
Edited by JERZY LIMON and JAY L. HALIO
This volume brings together some of the best critical work produced by Eastern and Central European scholars. The lead-off essay is an extended study that was first published in 1947, "The Baroque in English Literature" by Marco I Mincoff, Professor of English at Sofia
j University in Bulgaria until his death in
íj 1987. An essay on More's Utopia (a
chapter from Artur Blaim's book, Early English Utopian Fiction) follows. "The Genesis of the Double Time in Pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean Drama" was the first of Zdenék Stfíbrny's essays on Shakespeare's use of double-time, the others appearing in Shakespeare Jahrbuch: East. Many essays focus almost entirely upon Shakespeare's plays and cover such topics as the development of Shakespearean tragedy (Henryk Zbierski), a Hungarian reading of Measure for Measure (István Géher), subjectivity and dramatic discourse in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Eastern and Central European Studies
Edited by JERZY LIMON and JAY L. HALIO
This volume brings together some of the best critical work produced by Eastern and Central European scholars. The lead-off essay is an extended study that was first published in 1947, "The Baroque in English Literature" by Marco I Mincoff, Professor of English at Sofia
j University in Bulgaria until his death in
íj 1987. An essay on More's Utopia (a
chapter from Artur Blaim's book, Early English Utopian Fiction) follows. "The Genesis of the Double Time in Pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean Drama" was the first of Zdenék Stfíbrny's essays on Shakespeare's use of double-time, the others appearing in Shakespeare Jahrbuch: East. Many essays focus almost entirely upon Shakespeare's plays and cover such topics as the development of Shakespearean tragedy (Henryk Zbierski), a Hungarian reading of Measure for Measure (István Géher), subjectivity and dramatic discourse in The Tempest (Martín Pro-cházka), Georg Lukács' Shakespeare criticism (László Kéry), and Czech theatrical criticism of Shakespeare (Jan Mu-kafovsk^). Three younger scholars contribute essays on Hamlet, and the volume includes an essay by the Czech historian Josef PoliSensky on England and Bohemia in Shakespeare's day that illuminates aspects of The Winter's Tale. An essay on cartographic design in Stuart masques by Polish scholar Matgo-rzata Grzegorzewska is also included. The aim of International Studies in
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, occasional volumes published by the University of Delaware Press, is to bring to a wider audience the work of non-Anglo-American scholars and critics whose contributions might otherwise pass relatively unnoticed. Many of the essays in this volume originally appeared in books or journals of limited or local circulation, usually in the country of their origin only, but in the opinion of the editors they deserve to be better known. A number of them, such as those on Hamlet by Marta Gibinska, Piotr Sadowski, and Emma Szabó, are published here for the first time. All of the essays were written in English, but future volumes may focus on scholarship and criticism in languages with which Anglo-Americans are not expert. They will be translated and edited by knowledgeable scholars.
The Editorial Advisory Committee, composed of leading Shakespearean and Elizabethan scholars, has helped substantially in formulating the plans for International Studies, which is published in association with the International Shakespeare Association, Stratford-up-on-Avon, England.
About the Editors
Jerzy Limon, a well-known Polish scholar and novelist who teaches at the University of Gdansk, is the author of several books, most recently The Masque of Stuart Culture, published by the University of Delaware Press.
Jay L. Halio, chair of the editorial board of the University of Delaware Press, is the author of Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance and the editor of King Lear for the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
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