Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors 1: 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 Life Lynn 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 Culture Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A Timeline 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, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Surrey, UK 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