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Shakespeare on European festival stages : an introduction / Paul Prescott, Nicoleta Cinpoeş and Florence March -- Shaping democratic festivals through Shakespeare in southern France : Avignon, Montpellier, Nice / Florence March -- Shakespeare at the Almagro festivals : reinventing the plays in Spain / Isabel Guerrero -- Shakespeare at Four Castles : Summer Shakespeare Festival in Prague, Brno, Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Bratislava (Slovakia) / Filip Krajník and Eva Kyselová -- Globolatry in Germany : the Shakespeare Festival at Neuss--a dramaturg's perspective / Vanessa Schormann -- A world's stage for many players : the International Shakespeare Festival--Craiova, Romania / Nicoleta Cinpoeş -- Festivalizing Shakespeare in Italy : Verona and Rome / Lisanna Calvi and Maddalena Pennacchia -- The Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival : four centuries of travelling theatre in Poland / Urszula Kizelbach and Jacek Fabiszak -- From a schoolyard play to civic festival : Shakespeare in the Bulgarian village of Patalenitsa / Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva -- The Gyula Shakespeare Festival, Hungary : local, national, European, global / Ágnes Matuska and Júlia Paraizs -- Unhomely Shakespeares : interculturalism and diplomacy in Elsinore / Anne Sophie Refskou -- Shakespeare's Globe in Indija--a portrait of Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia) / Alexandra Portmann. "Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare's presence at European festivals and to examine the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, while considering, in turn, the impact festivals have on the production and circulation of staged Shakespeare. This collection offers the most authoritative and informed accounts of a wide range of festivals hosted in 14 countries, including the Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia), the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (Poland), Shake-Nice! (France) and the Almago Festival (Spain). From the aftermath of World War II until now, festivals have deployed Shakespeare as a model of inclusive theatre to provide alternative answers to Europe's multi-faceted crises. This collection charts the history of Shakespeare appropriation in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries through the framework of festivals. It provides a dialectical perspective on local and global, national and trans-national strategies of appropriation of Shakespeare, providing new angles from which to analyse his historical, cultural, political, diplomatic and ethical significance in Europe"--
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