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

Global Shakespeare Inverted challenges any tendency to view Global Shakespeare from the perspective of ‘centre’ versus ‘periphery’. Although the series may locate its critical starting point geographically, it calls into question the geographical bias that lurks within the very notion of the ‘global’. It provides a timely, constructive criticism of the present state of the field and establishes new and alternative methodologies that invert the relation of Shakespeare to the supposed ‘other’.

Advisory board
Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur University, India
Chanita Goodblatt, Professor of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Douglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, United States
Sonia Massai, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Alfredo Michel Modenessi, Professor of English Literature, Drama and Translation, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Anne Sophie Refskou, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, Aarhus University, Denmark
Motohashi Tetsuya, Professor of Cultural Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, Japan
Chris Thurman, Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Sandra Young, Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa