Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Nely Keinänen is a lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland, researching the early reception of Shakespeare in Finland. She is on the board of the Nordic Shakespeare Society (NorSS).Per Sivefors is Associate Professor of English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published extensively on early modern literature and culture and is currently working on the early reception of Shakespeare in Scandinavia (1760 – 1820). He is Chair of the Nordic Shakespeare Society (NorSS).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionNely Keinänen and Per Sivefors1: The First Danish Production of Hamlet (1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark)2: Geijer’s Macbeth – Page, Stage and the Seeds of Time Kiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hägglund (Stockholm University, Sweden)3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in Translation and Transition in Hamlet Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley (Uppsala University, Sweden)4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall’s Ruunulinna Jyrki Nummi, Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland)5: Søren Kierkegaard’s Adaptation Of King Lear James Newlin (Case Western Reserve University, USA)6: ‘A blot on Swedish hospitality’: Ira Aldridge’s Visit to Stockholm in 1857 Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden)7: Shakespeare’s Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi’s Drama Karkurit [The Fugitives]Riitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland)8: Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday LifeLynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA)9: Knut Hamsun’s Criticism of Shakespeare Martin Humpál (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of CultureAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A TimelineIndex