How can Shakespeare’s classic works help narrate experiences of war, identity, and Ukrainian culture?
This special thematic volume is dedicated to the presence of William Shakespeare’s works in Ukrainian culture, scholarship, and theatre. The reception and interpretation of Shakespeare’s writings are explored in the contexts of war, memory, trauma, and community-building.
In the latest issue, you will find the following articles:
The Ukrainian Project in the Free World: The Ukrainian Shakespeare Society
Ludmiła Mnich
Shakespeare Studies at the Ivan Franco National University of Lviv: Maiia Harbuziuk in memoriam
Myroslava Tsyhanyk, Khrystyna Novosad-Lesiuk
The Quest for Selfhood: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Interpreted by Maria Hablevych
Anna Sverediuk, Oksana Dzera
Britain, Shakespeare, and Ukraine Interview with Prof. Nataliya Torkut, Head of Український Шекспірівський центр [Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre; Ukraïns’kij Šekspìrìvs’kij centr] by Dr. Olha Kvasnytsia, journalist at the newspaper День [The Day; Denʼ]
Olha Kvasnytsia, Nataliya Torkut
Virtual Museum “#Hamlet_UA: Act 1, Scene 1943” in the Context of Decolonizing Knowledge about Ukraine
Nataliya Torkut, Svitlana Deineka, Roman Lavrentii
Lost (in) Translations: How Ukrainian Shakespeareana Must Be Bigger Than We Think
Daria Moskvitina, Bohdan Korneliuk
Modernising the Ukrainian Language through the Power of Translation: Ihor Kostetskyi’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Lada Kolomiyets
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind”: Reading Vladyslav Yerko’s Illustrations to Shakespearein Ukrainian
Darya Lazarenko, Yurii Cherniak
The Precariousness of Human Existence in William Shakespeare’s Plays: A Ukrainian Perspective
Olha Bandrovska, Nataliya Torkut
Macbeth in Wartime Ukraine
Viktoriia Marinesko, Anastasiia Brynko
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Novelty on the Ukrainian Puppet Stage
Roman Lavrentii, Olesia Ostapiuk
Depicting Collective Support on the Theatrical Stage: The Case of We Are Hamlet
Hanna Veselovska
Shakespeare, Trauma, and Social Change: Inclusive Ukrainian Theatre Projects (2019–2023)
Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii
The Hamlet Syndrome (dir. Niewiera & Rosołowski, 2022) – Drawing a Portrait of the Maidan Generation with Piotr Rosołowski
Agnieszka Rasmus
Romeo and Juliet: From a Performance for Teenagers to an Innovative Dramatic Performance in the Time of War
Yuliia Shchukina, Liudmyla Vaniuha
Shelter from the Storm: Two Recent Shakespeare Stagings by the Ivano-Frankivsk Drama Theatre
Oksana Fedorkiv, David Livingstone
War-torn King Lear: Adaptation as Catharsis
Gabriela Cheaptanaru
Introduction: Shakespeare Shelter
Nicoleta Cinpoeş, Imke Lichterfeld
Foreword: Shakespeare in Ukraine
Irena R. Makaryk
“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you”: Kelly Hunter on Art, Healing, Trauma and Working with Ukrainian Families. A Conversation with Darya Lazarenko and Imke Lichterfeld
Darya Lazarenko, Imke Lichterfeld
“Ha*l*t is a play about a play that never happened.” Notes on HA*L*T
Imke Lichterfeld
L_UKR_ECE at the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival, Romania, 2022
Sorin Cazacu, Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
Exploring Object Afterlives: Ophelia. Subject Study at the 28th Gdansk International Shakespeare Festival, 2024
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
Working Title: A Collaboration Made in York
Philip Parr
Theatre Studio of IDP’s Uzhik Production of King Lear, directed by Viacheslav Yehorov, staged at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 14 and 15 June 2024
Cristie Carson
Afterword: IF Shakespeare UA. The First International Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 17–23 June 2024
Nicoleta Cinpoeş, Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
In Memoriam: Mark Sokolianskyi (1939–2025)
Nataliya Torkut, Daria Moskvitina
Contributors
Nicoleta Cinpoeş, Imke Lichterfeld
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