Foreword: Shakespeare in Ukraine

Irena R. Makaryk

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.31.02

Authors

Irena R. Makaryk University of Ottawa, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-2178

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.31.02

Author Biography

Irena R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa, Canada

Irena R. Makaryk is Emerita Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Honorary Academician, Academy of Sciences Vyshcha Shkola of Ukraine. Her research interests include wartime Shakespeare, cultural politics, modernism, and theatre in times of great social and political duress. She is the author and editor of sixteen books, including the award-winning Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les’ Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics (Toronto 2004). Her most recent book is Shakespeare in Ukraine: Mirror, Prism, Megaphone (Toronto 2025).

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