Introduction: East-Central and Central-East Europe as an Imagined Space for Shakespeare

Šárka Havlíčková Kysová; Ivona Mišterová

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.28.01

Authors

Šárka Havlíčková Kysová Masaryk University, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-5991
Ivona Mišterová University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5461-8953

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.28.01

Abstract

The publication of the issue was supported by the International Visegrad Fund, project no. 22210007, titled “Crossing Borders with Shakespeare since 1945: Central and Eastern European Roots and Routes.” The project is co-financed by the Governments of the Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants. The mission of the Fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Author Biographies

Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

is associate professor at Masaryk University, Department of Theatre Studies. In her research and lecturing activities, she focuses on the theory of theatre (especially from the perspective of cognitive studies), and the staging of opera (especially Czech stagings of operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Bedřich Smetana). At present she focuses on the application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory and Multimodal Metaphor Theory in the field of the analysis of opera production practice and reflections on directing operas.
Ivona Mišterová, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

is head of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czechia. Her research interests include Shakespearean adaptations for children and young adults, reception studies, and the cultural impact of British and American theatre (not only) in Czechia. She has published extensively on these topics, exploring Shakespearean translations and adaptations, as well as the performances of British and American works staged in Czech theatres during the 20th and 21st centuries. Notable publications include Anglo-American Drama on Pilsen Stages (2013) and Inter Arma non Silent Musae: English and American Drama on Czech and Moravian Stages during the Great War (2017), which provide insights into the intersection of literature, culture, and performance history.

References

Theatralia. Vol. 24, Special Issue (2021), guest edited by Kinga Földváry and Zsolt Almási. https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/issue/view/1824 Accessed 23 October 2023.