Michael Hattaway is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. In 2010 he gave the 100th Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy.Boika Sokolova teaches Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway and at the British American Drama Academy (BADA). She has published widely on Shakespeare, his reception in Europe and performance. Derek Roper is a former Senior Lecturer in the department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroductionI. THE OLD EUROPE: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL POLICY1 From the unlove of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet without the Prince: a Shakespearean mirror held up to the fortunes of new Bulgaria Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova2 Buridan's ass between two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, or Bottom's telos in the GDR and after Thomas SorgeII. ROTTEN STATE, NOBLE MIND? 3 Hamlets made in Germany, East and West Manfred Pfister4 'The question of these wars': Hamlet in the new Europe Robin Headlam WellsIII. CONSTRUCTING NATIONS5 Shakespearean nationhoods Jonathan Bate6 'Like to a tenement or pelting farm': Richard II and the idea of the nation Nicholas PotterIV. SUBVERSIVE SHAKESPEARE, EAST AND WEST7 Shakespeare in Czech: an essay in cultural semantics Martin Hilsky8 Polish Hamlets: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Polish theatres after 1945 Marta Gibinska9 Remembering with advantages: nation and ideology in Henry V Tom Healy10 Shakespeare's spooks, or someone to watch over me Terence HawkesV. THE NEW EUROPE 1: SPAIN TO UKRAINE11 Shakespeare in the new Spain: or, what you will Rafael Portillo and Manuel Gomez-Lara12 'Giant-like rebellions' and recent Russian experience: Shakespearean irony as an approach to modern history Mark SokolyanskyVI. THE NEW EUROPE 2: SHAKESPEARE IN THE BALKANS13 Shakespeare in post-revolutionary Romania: the great directors are back home Odette-Irenne Blumenfeld14 Nothings, merchants, tempests: trimming Shakespeare for the 1992 Bulgarian stage Evgenia Pancheva15 Recruiting the Bard: onstage and offstage glimpses of recent Shakespeare productions in Croatia Janja Ciglar-ZanicVII. THE NEW EUROPE 3: LOVE, POWER, POSTMODERNISM16 Shakespeare's radical romanticism: the popular tradition and the challenge of tribalism Harriett Hawkins17 'Perplex'd beyond self-explication': Cymbeline and early modern/postmodern Europe James Siemon18 The Pannonians and the Dalmatians: Reading for a European history in Cymbeline Erica Sheen19 Tradition and modernization: some thoughts on Shakespeare criticism in the new Europe Thomas SorgeVIII. PRODUCING AND REINVENTING20 Baroque down: the trauma of censorship in psychoanalysis and queer film re-visions of Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Burt21 Shakespeare's histories: the politics of recent British productions Michael HattawayIndex