Global King Lear

William R. Rampone is Professor of English at South Carolina State University, USA. Eric S. Mallin is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Introduction by William R. Rampone (South Carolina State University, USA) and Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

I. Social and ethical responsibilities

1. Leave the Brits, take the Shakespeare: Echoing King Lear, Banishing British Blood, and Indigenizing Shakespeare in 36 Chowringhee Lane
Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University, USA)

2. Upon a Wheel of Fire’: King Lear and Social Reparation
Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)

3. Populism with a distinctly macho flavor: a contemporary King Lear in a Post-Communist context
Gabriella Reuss (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)

II. Aging, death, and citizenship

4. Institute of English Studies; “The Spectres of Lear: Shakespeare’s Apocalyptic Tragedy in Selected Polish Theatre Productions”
Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

5. Indian Lears, Aging, and Culture
Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University, India)

6. Masahiro Kobayashi’s Lear on the Beach: Tatsuya Nakadai and the Modern Issue of Aging in Japan
Hisao Oshima (Kyushu University, Japan)

III. Lear’s theatres and metatheatricality

7. The Transformation of King Lear in the Process of Huaju Sinicization
Jing Li (Peking University, China)

8. Lear’s Death—a tragicomedy on the Hungarian Stage
Agnes Matuska (University of Szeged, Hungary)

9. The Last Lear: Stagecraft, Cinema, and the Crisis of Representation
Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)

10. Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream, a Peking Opera
Zhang Qiong (Fudan University, China)

IV. Cross-Cultural encounters and the drama of ideas

11. Productions of King Lear on German Stages in the late Eighteenth Century
Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

12. Fathers, Daughters, and Absent Mothers: Power and Gender in Kishida Rio’s Lear Colleen Lanki (University of British Columbia, Canada)

13. Beyond Pragmatism: Apocalypse, Adaptation, and Historicity in King Lear and Some of its Czech Versions
Martin Procházka (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Index