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Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation (2018)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2018). Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation. Shakespeare Studies -Columbia then Albuquerque-, 46, 35-46

In 1997, Stephen Greenblatt observed in his introduction to The Norton Shakespeare: “The fantastic diffusion and long life of Shakespeare’s works depends on their extraordinary malleability”. Two years later, Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer publishe... Read More about Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation.

Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era (2017)
Book Chapter
Skinner, A. (2017). Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era. In A. Aronson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Scenography (435-443). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781317422266-41

The complex, metaphorical scenographies that are seen in the work of Russian designers during the 1970s and 1980s are a clear legacy of the Soviet period, where the necessities of censorship led to the emergence of specific modes of expression. The m... Read More about Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era.

Translating classical plays: collected papers, J. Michael Walton (2016) London and New York: Routledge, 270pp. (2017)
Journal Article
Drábek, P. (2017). Translating classical plays: collected papers, J. Michael Walton (2016) London and New York: Routledge, 270pp. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 10(1), 81-83. https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp.10.1.81_5

Review of J. Michael Walton. Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 270pp. ISBN 9781138124325. £85.00 (hb). ISBN 9781315648231. £24.49 (eb).

Vlastislav Hoffman’s 1926 Hamlet (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Fergusson Baugh, C. Vlastislav Hoffman’s 1926 Hamlet. Exhibited at Columbus Museum of Art. 10 February 2017 - 21 May 2017

This PaR project extends the principals explored in the reconstruction of architectural space to other visual forms, in this case, scenic design. The 1926 production of Hamlet is of particular significance in a range of contexts. It was Karel Hiller’... Read More about Vlastislav Hoffman’s 1926 Hamlet.

Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Theatralia, 19(2), 156-159

Reviews of Margherita LAERA (ed.). Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 284pp. Katalin TRENCSÉNYI and Bernadette COCHRANE (eds.). New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. Lo... Read More about Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Bakhtin and theatre? (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Bakhtin and theatre?. Theatralia, 19(2), 152-155

Review of Dick McCaw. Bakhtin and Theatre: Dialogues with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Grotowski. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 247pp.

Sládkova strukturalistická smršť (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Sládkova strukturalistická smršť. Theatralia, 19(1), 282-289. https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2016-1-12

Reviewed works: Sládek, Ondřej. Jan Mukařovský: život a dílo. První vydání. Brno: Host, 2015. 446 s. ISBN 978-80-7491-531-4. Sládek, Ondřej. The metamorphoses of Prague School structural poetics. Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, 2015. 196 s. Travaux linguistiq... Read More about Sládkova strukturalistická smršť.

Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance (2016)
Book
Edinborough, C. (2016). Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance. Intellect

Performance, dramaturgy, and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during perform... Read More about Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance.

Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats (2016)
Journal Article
Skinner, A. (2016). Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(3), 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1225184

Soviet socialist realism is frequently constructed as the death knell of the Russian avant-garde. The combination of vague instructions (mainly concerning the required effect of the work, rather than its formal construction) with severe consequences... Read More about Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats.

Book review: Singing simpkin and other bawdy jigs: musical comedy on the Shakespearean stage: scripts, music & context, by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping, with an appendix of dance instructions by Anne Daye, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2014, 340 pp. (2016)
Journal Article
Drábek, P. (2017). Book review: Singing simpkin and other bawdy jigs: musical comedy on the Shakespearean stage: scripts, music & context, by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping, with an appendix of dance instructions by Anne Daye, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2014, 340 pp. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 37(3), 370-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1229771

Review of Singing simpkin and other bawdy jigs: musical comedy on the Shakespearean stage: scripts, music & context, by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping, with an appendix of dance instructions by Anne Daye, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2014, 340... Read More about Book review: Singing simpkin and other bawdy jigs: musical comedy on the Shakespearean stage: scripts, music & context, by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping, with an appendix of dance instructions by Anne Daye, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2014, 340 pp..

Shakespearean tragedy in Eastern Europe (2016)
Book Chapter
Drabek, P. (2016). Shakespearean tragedy in Eastern Europe. In M. Neill, & D. Schalkwyk (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy (746-760). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.45

Eastern Europe is a problematic geopolitical concept comprising anywhere from 7 to 20 countries—culturally, ethnically and historically different. What they share is a Communist past. This essay discusses the diverse historical heritage of Eastern Eu... Read More about Shakespearean tragedy in Eastern Europe.

Prunes and posses: Individuation and team cohesion in Silent Witness (2016)
Journal Article
Khorikian, A. (2016). Prunes and posses: Individuation and team cohesion in Silent Witness. Journal of British cinema and television, 13(3), 450-468. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0329

© Edinburgh University Press. Silent Witness (BBC, 1996-) is a long-running and successful forensic crime drama. Although academic attention to the series has thus far focused on the iconic original protagonist Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton), an intriguing... Read More about Prunes and posses: Individuation and team cohesion in Silent Witness.

Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project (2016)
Journal Article
Edinborough, C. (2016). Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project. Performance Research, 21(3), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1176737

In November 2014 a specially created audio walk, A Roving Soul: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin, was presented as part of the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities. The piece invited listeners to put on headphones an... Read More about Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project.