Shakespeare Around the Globe:
Contributors
The following distinguished scholars have agreed to
contribute studies of Shakespeare in their various countries:
Biographies
Dr. Sukanta Chaudhuri
(Jadavpur University)
Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata
(Calcutta), India. Author of Infirm Glory: Shakespeare
and the Renaissance Image of Man (Clarendon Press,
1981), Renaissance Pastoral and Its English
Developments (Clarendon Press, 1989), 'Translation and
Understanding' (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999).
Co-editor of Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage: A
Checklist (Papyrus, Kolkata, 2002). Editor of a
selection of Elizabethan poetry (including Shakespeare).
Author of many articles and seminar papers on Shakespeare.
Member of the Executive Committee of the International
Shakespeare Association, and the Advisory Board of the
Shakespeare Society of India. Has read papers, conducted
seminars and/or chaired sessions at four World Shakespeare
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Dr. Werner Habicht
(University of Wuerzburg)
Dr. Werner Habicht is Professor Emeritus of English at the
University of Wuerzburg, Germany. He held previous
professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and
Wuerzburg, and visiting professorships at various
universities in the USA and Cyprus. He was president of the
Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft West (1976-1987), is
honorary vice president of the International Shakespeare
Association, and elected member of the Academy of Sciences
and Literature, Mainz, and the Bavarian Academy of
Sciences, Munich. His publications include Die Gebaerde
in englischen Dichtungen des Mittelalters (1959),
Studien zur Dramenform vor Shakespeare (1968),
Shakespeare and the German Imagination (1994),
Texte und Kontexte der englischen Literatur im Jahr
1695 (1995), as well as c. 120 articles mainly on
English drama and Shakespeare reception. He was founding
editor of English and American Studies in German,
editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch (1981-1995), and
co-editor of a bi-lingual edition of Shakespeare's plays,
several volumes of essays, and a literary encyclopedia
(Literatur Brockhaus, 8 vols., 2nd edn. 1995).
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Dr. Krystyna Kujawinska
Courtney (University of Lodz)
Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney is currently the Head of the
British and Commonwealth Studies Department at the
University of Lodz, and Professor of British Literature at
the Warsaw University. She has been the grantee of the
British Council, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Batory
Foundation. She has studied,researched and taught at the
Texas University at Austin (USA) and the Central Missouri
State University in Warrensburg (USA) as well as The
Glamorgan University (UK) and the Shakespeare Institurte
(UK). Shakespeare is her main of field of academic
research, though she is also interested in literary theory,
especially cultural and gender studies. She is the author
two monographs (Canada, 1993, Poland, 1997), a dictionary
of critical and literary terms (Russia, 1998), and several
articles published in Poland and abroad (e.g.
Shakespeare Jarhbuch, Shakespeare
Worldwide, and Shakespeare Bulletin ). She is
also the editor and co-editor of 6 volumes of international
essays in cultural studies. Since 1983 she has been the
Polish bibliographer for "The World Shakespeare
Bibliography" (USA). [Back]
Dr. Leanore Lieblein (McGill
University)
Leanore Lieblein, Associate Professor and former Chair of
English at McGill University, has published articles on
medieval and Renaissance drama in performance and
co-translated Les Esbahis (Taken by
Surprise) by Jacques Grévin (1561), and directed
medieval, Renaissance and modern plays. She is also on the
editorial board of L'Annuaire théâtral.
She has been associated with the Centre de Recherches sur
la Renaissance of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and
done archival research at the Théâre de
Nanterre-Amandiers and other European theatres. Her current
research is on the staging of Shakespeare in French in
Québec. [Back]
Dr Richard Madelaine
(University of New South Wales)
Richard Madelaine, Senior Lecturer in English at the
University of New South Wales, Sydney, has published
numerous papers on staging and iconographical issues in the
plays of Shakespeare and his Jacobean contemporaries, as
well as writing on Shakespearean stage history. He is
author of Antony and Cleopatra in the
Shakespeare in Production series (Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1998) and of a chapter on
Oscar Asche's Australian tours in O Brave New
World. He contributed to The Shakespearean
International Yearbook, vol.2 (ed. John Mucciolo, Graham
Bradshaw and Angus Fletcher, Aldershot, Burlington &
Singapore, Ashgate, 2001, pp.44-59), and is joint series
editor of the Bell Shakespeare Series (Halstead Press).
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Professor Jean-Marie Maguin
Jean-Marie Maguin is Emeritus Professor of English
Literature at the University of Montpellier 3 where he
co-founded the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la
Renaissance Anglaise (CERRA) in 1970 and Cahiers
Elisabéthains (Late Medieval and Renaissance
English Studies) in 1972. He has published La Nuit dans
le théâtre de Shakespeare et de ses
prédécessurs (Night in the Drama of
Shakespeare and his Predecessors), Lille, 1980; and
(with Angela Maguin) William Shakespeare (Fayard,
Paris 1996), as well as many articles on the poetics and
semiotics of English Renaissance drama and theatre. He is
currently co-editing a collection of thirty Elizabethan,
Jacobean, and Caroline plays in translation for
Pléiade Gallimard. [Back]
Dr. Irena R. Makaryk
Irena R. Makaryk is Full Professor, and Director of
Graduate Studies of the Department of English at the
University of Ottawa. She has published various articles,
mainly on Shakespeare reception in Canada and in the former
USSR. Author of The Undiscovered Bourn: Shakespeare,
Kurbas, Modernism (in press), and About the
Harrowing of Hell: A Seventeenth-century Ukrainian Play in
Its European Context (CIUS-Dovehouse Editions, 1989),
she is also the editor of a number of books, including the
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (U of
Toronto P, 1993); and the co-editor (with Diana Brydon,
University of Western Ontario) of Shakespeare in
Canada: 'a world elsewhere'? (U of Toronto P, 2002).
Dr. Michele Marrapodi
Michele Marrapodi is full professor of English Literature
and History of English Drama in the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Palermo. He is co-editor of Shakespeare
Yearbook, associate editor of Cahiers
Elisabéthains, and assistant editor of
SCN. His volumes include The Great Image
(Rome: Herder, 1984), La Sicilia nella drammaturgia
giacomiana e carolina (Rome: Herder, 1989),
L'odissea di Pericles (Rome, Bulzoni, 1999). He
has edited Shakespeare's Italy (Manchester:
M.U.P., 1993; Rev. pk. edition, 1997), The Italian
World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and
Intertextuality (Newark: U. of Delaware P., 1998),
Italian Studies in Shakespeare and His
Contemporaries (Newark: U. of Delaware P., 1999),
Shakespeare Yearbook, X (1999), Shakespeare
and Intertextuality: The Transition of Cultures Between
Italy and England in the Early Modern Period (Rome:
Bulzoni, 2000). [Back]
Michael J. Redmond
Michael J. Redmond is Lecturer in English at the University
of Palermo, Italy. His research focuses on the ideological
functions of the representation of Italian culture in early
modern English drama. His publications include "'I have
read them all' : Jonson's Volpone and the
discourse of the Italianate Englishman." The Italian
World of Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and
Intertextuality,ed. Michele Marrapodi (U of Delaware
P, 1998); "'My Lord, I fear, has forgot Britain': Rome,
Italy and the (Re)construction of British National Identity
in Cymbeline."Shakespeare Yearbook X
(1999);"Measure for Measure and the Politics of
the Italianate Disguised Duke Play." Shakespeare and
Intertextuality: Transition of Cultures Between Italy and
England in the Early Modern Period, ed. Michele
Marrapodi (Rome: Bulzoni, 2000) and "Tis common knowledge":
Italian Stereotypes and Audience Response in Much Ado
About Nothing and The Novella."
Shakespeare Yearbook, 2002. Prior to his
appointment in Italy, Dr. Redmond was a Commonwealth
Scholar at the University of Sussex in England, where he
studied with Alan Sinfield. [Back]
Professor Laurence Wright
(Rhodes University)
Laurence Wright is Director of the Institute for the Study
of English in Africa at Rhodes University.His research
interests include South African language policy, language
education for teachers, and the history of Shakespeare in
South Africa. He serves on the Councils of the National
English Literary Museum, the English Academy of Southern
Africa, and the Grahamstown Foundation. He is Honorary Life
President of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa.
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