"Henry V": A Report on the Condition of the World

Marta Gibińska

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.28.07

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Marta Gibińska Tischner European University, Poland

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https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.28.07

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Keywords:

'Henry V', 'Henry V' reception, Shakespeare in Polish Translation, Piotr Kamiński, Dariusz Rosiak

Abstract

The central interest of the paper is concentrated on an online production of Henry V in 2020. The project is based on a new Polish translation by Piotr Kamiński and produced by Dariusz Rosiak, a journalist, as one of his regular Reports on the Condition of the World published on YouTube. Realised as a reading performance by three actors in front of an empty row of chairs, the production brings an innovative and revealing interpretation of the play, breaking new ground in the Polish reception of Shakespeare’s histories.

The paper offers a brief review of the presence of history plays in Polish reception and introductory information on Rosiak’s YouTube channel and Kamiński’s translation as a background to a critical analysis of the production and its relevance to the here and now of our world.

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Author Biography

Marta Gibińska, Tischner European University, Poland

Jagiellonian University Professor Emerita, teaches English literature and translation with particular emphasis on Shakespeare’s plays and poetry at Tischner European University. Her academic interests focus on the language of Shakespeare, the reception of Shakespeare in Poland and Shakespearean translation criticism. She has authored around 100 publications, including two monographs: The Functioning of Language in Shakespeare’s Plays (1989) and Polish Poets Read Shakespeare (2000). She co-edited numerous collective volumes, including Hamlet East-West (with Jerzy Limon 1998), Czytanie Shakespeare’a (Reading Shakespeare, with Ewa Nawrocka and Jacek Fabiszak 2005), Shakespeare: History and Memory (with Agnieszka Romanowska 2008). Together with Jacek Fabiszak and Marta Kapera she also published Shakespeare. Lexicon (2003). A member of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft and the International Shakespeare Association, as well as the European Shakespeare Research Association, she is the co-founder of the Polish Shakespeare Society, and for many years served as its first President.

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