The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range - that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings new electronic media made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can also begin one’s own intellectual journey through cultural history - any time, any place. [...] Despite the once popular but now outdated post-truths, history has not ended. This volume testifies to the benefits of combining historical perspective in its fairly elementary version, which is a linear sequence of events, with an in-depth analysis of the transformations in understanding, exhibiting, and using (appropriating) Shakespeare’s works in our rapidly changing reality. Prof. Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Living Daily with Shakespeare Worldwide 9 REVISITING TEXTS AND CONTEXTS 13 Mario Domenichelli – Shakespeare’s Ideological Conflicts and Rhetorical Battles 15 Xenia Georgopoulou – The Price of Difference: Shakespeare’s Varieties of Bullying 45 PRACTICES AND APPROPRIATIONS 69 Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney – Wojciech Bogusławski’s Hamlet (1798): Positioning Shakespeare in Polish Culture 71 Mark Sokolyansky – Another Look upon Alexander Pushkin’s Role in Appropriation of Shakespeare by Russian Culture 79 Aleksandra Budrewicz – The One Gentleman from Poland. Polonius and 19th Century Polish Translation 87 Sarbani Chaudhury – Bombarding the Headquarters: Academic Tradaptations of Shakespeare in Twenty-First Century Bengal 101 Anna Pietrzykowska-Motyka – Meeting the Binaries: Angela Carter’s Wise Children as a Shakespearean Appropriation 119 NATIONAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THEATRE 131 Emi Hamana – Hamlet (2015), Directed by Yukio Ninagawa: Possessed by the Power of Theatre 133 Jana Wild – “The Art of Performance” Staging Hamlet in the Rusyn Language 145 Monika Sosnowska – Azorro Presents: Poland at the Crossroads or Whose Words Are Hamlet’s “words, words, words” 151 THE BARD ON THE NET 169 Grace Ioppolo – Shakespeare and Digital and Social Media 171 WORKS CITED 183 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 195 INDEX OF NAMES AND CHARACTERS 197