Introduction: ‘Migrating Shakespeare’ by Janet Clare and Dominique Goy-Blanquet1. “Michelangelo of tragedy”: Shakespeare’s tortuous Italian routes by Maria Luisa De Rinaldis (University of Salento, Italy)2“No stranger here”: Shakespeare in Germany by Wolfgang G. Müller (University of Jena, Germany)3. Shakespeare at cultural crossroads: Switzerland by Balz Engler (Basel University, Switzerland)4. Opening the book: the disclosure of Shakespeare in the Netherlands by Detlef Wagenaar (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)5. Jean-François Ducis, global passeur: Shakespeare’s migration in Continental Europe by Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France)6. No profit but the name’: the Polish reception of Shakespeare’s plays by Anna Cetera-Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland)7. ‘From migration to naturalisation: Shakespeare in Russia by Marina P. Kizima (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)8. Trade routes, politics and culture: Shakespeare in Sweden by Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 9. The mirror and the razor: Shakespeare’s arrival in Spain by Keith Gregor (University of Murcia, Spain) 10. Migrating with migrants: Shakespeare and the Armenian diaspora by Jasmine Seymour (Armenian Shakespeare Association)11. Shakespeare in Greece: from Athens to Constantinople and beyond by Mara Yanni (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) NotesReferencesIndex

Migrating Shakespeare is the first comparative study of inaugurative cultural and national encounters with Shakespeare, enabling a view of how in migration his plays have been variously instrumentalized, adopted and appropriated.

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 boardSupriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur University, IndiaChanita Goodblatt, Professor of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelDouglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, United StatesSonia Massai, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyAlfredo Michel Modenessi, Professor of English Literature, Drama and Translation, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), MexicoAnne Sophie Refskou, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Surrey, UKMotohashi Tetsuya, Professor of Cultural Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, JapanChris Thurman, Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaSandra Young, Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa