Shakespeare’s Others in 21st-century European Performance

Janice Valls-Russell is Principal research associate (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France. Boika Sokolova teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA, in England.

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Introduction Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)

PART ONE Relocating otherness: the Other-within
Induction 1 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
1. ‘Venice’ is elsewhere: the Stranger’s locality, or, Italian ‘blackness’ in twenty-first-century stagings of Othello Anna Maria Cimitile (University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy)
2. Refracting the racial Other into the Other-within in two Bulgarian adaptations of Othello Boika Sokolova (Unoversity of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)
3. Estranged Strangers: Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Shylock and Othello in African Tales after Shakespeare (2011) Aleksandra Sakowska (Shakespeare Institute, UK)
4. Drags, dyes, and death in Venice: The Merchant of Venice (2004) and Othello (2012) in Belgrade, Serbia Zorica Becanovic Nikolic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
5. The Merchant of Venice in France (2001 and 2017): deconstructing a malaise Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)

PART TWO New nationalisms, migrants: imperfect resolutions
Induction 2 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
6. ‘Barbarous temper’, ‘hideous violence’ and ‘mountainish inhumanity’: stage encounters with The Merchant of Venice in Romania Nicoleta Cinpoes (University of Worcester, UK)
7. Staging The Merchant of Venice in Hungary: politics, prejudice and languages of hatred Natália Pikli (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
8. Dutch negotiations with otherness in times of crisis: Othello (2006) and The Arab of Amsterdam (2008) Coen Heijes (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
9. ‘Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago’: radical empathy in two Portuguese performances of Othello Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
10. A tragedy? Othello and The Merchant of Venice in Germany during the 2015–2016 ‘refugee crisis’ Bettina Boecker (University of Munich, Germany)

PART THREE Performative propositions
Induction 3 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)
11. The Merchant in Venice in the Venetian Ghetto (2016): Director Karin Coonrod in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)
12. Inverting Othello in France (2019): Director Arnaud Churin in conversation with Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)
13. Migrant Othello in Bulgaria (2020): Professor Plamen Markov in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)

Coda: Staging Shakespeare’s Others and their Biblical archetype Péter Dávidházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

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