Shakespeare on European Festival Stages

Paul Prescott is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, UK. He has worked extensively on and with Shakespeare festivals and companies across North America, Europe and elsewhere, and is the co-founder of ‘Shakespeare in Yosemite’. Florence March is Professor at University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France, a specialist in Renaissance and Restoration drama, a drama translator at Maison Antoine Vitez (an international Centre for theatre translation in Paris) and a consultant for Le Printemps des comédiens, Montpellier's international drama festival. Nicoleta Cinpoes is a professor at the University of Worcester, UK, a Shakespeare scholar, historian and reviewer, and a consultant for the International Shakespeare Festival, Craiova, Romania.

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Introduction - Paul Prescott, Nicoleta Cinpoes and Florence March

1. Shaping democratic festivals through Shakespeare in southern France: Avignon, Montpellier, Nice
Florence March, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France

2. Shakespeare at the Almagro festivals: reinventing the plays in Spain
Isabel Guerrero, University of Murcia, Spain

3. Shakespeare at Four Castles: Summer Shakespeare Festival in Prague, Brno, Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Bratislava (Slovakia)
Filip Krajník, University of Brno, Czech Republic and Eva Kyselová, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

4. Globolatry in Germany: The Shakespeare Festival at Neuss – a dramaturg’s perspective
Vanessa Schormann, University of Munich, Germany

5. A world’s stage for many players: the international Shakespeare Festival – Craiova, Romania
Nicoleta Cinpoes, University of Worcester, UK

6. Festivalizing Shakespeare in Italy: Verona and Rome
Lisanna Calvi, University of Verona, Italy and Maddalena Pennacchia, Roma Tre University, Italy

7. The Gdansk Shakespeare Festival: four centuries of travelling theatre in Poland
Urszula Kizelbach and Jacek Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

8. From a schoolyard play to civic festival: Shakespeare in the Bulgarian village of Patalenitsa
Boika Sokolova, University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway, UK and Kirilka Stavreva, Cornell College, USA

9. The Gyula Shakespeare Festival, Hungary: local, national, European, global
Ágnes Matuska, University of Szeged, Hungary and Júlia Paraizs, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

10. Unhomely Shakespeares: interculturalism and diplomacy in Elsinore
Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey, UK

11. Shakespeare’s Globe in Indija – a portrait of Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia)
Alexandra Portmann, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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