ANGLES Volume V

Charting Shakespearean Waters:
Text and Theatre

Editors: Niels Bugge Hansen and Søs Haugaard

List of Contents

Editors' Preface

Introduction

Peter Holland
Coasting in the Mediterranean: The Journeyings of Pericles

Tom Pettitt
Midsummer Metadrama:
'Pyramus and Thisbe' and Early English Household Theatre

Dorrit Einersen
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida:
Tragedy, Comedy, Satire, History or Problem Play?

Michael Skovmand
Troilus and Cressida: A Dialogic Reading

Charles Lock
Soiling the Page, Daubing the Wall:
A Reading of Henry the Fourth, Part One, 1.1. 1-65

Søs Haugaard
'Now is he turned orthography': On Silence and Writing

Lars Kaaber
What Happened to Hamlet? Text and Tradition

Robert Weimann
Hamlet and the Players:
Performance and Appropriation of Shakespeare in East-Berlin

Paul Edmondson
Macbeth: The Play in Performance

Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen
As They Liked It:
Departures from Shakespeare's Text in Two Adaptations of As You Like It

Niels Bugge Hansen
The Spirit of Transformation:
Shakespeare's The Tempest and Karen Blixen's 'Tempests'

Review

Notes on Contributors

EDITORS' PREFACE

The editors of this volume of Angles are proud to be able to present this collection of essays on Shakespeare. As reflected in the title, CHARTING SHAKESPEAREAN WATERS: TEXT AND THEATRE, the volume contains a wide range of subjects on many different plays. We have not wished to impose any specific focus on the volume, but rather chosen our contributors and invited them to write articles that reflect their current interests in Shakespeare.

We are delighted that so many who were asked agreed readily to give us a paper, so that our initial intentions have been realized. We wanted the volume to demonstrate the lively interest in Shakespeare which flourishes within our own department (Bugge Hansen, Einersen, Haugaard, Hjørnager Pedersen, Lock). We also wanted the book to reflect the state of Shakespeare studies at our Danish sister universities and at the same time to strengthen the links to them (Pettitt, Skovmand). It is likewise a pleasure to include a
representative of the many Danish Shakespeareans outside the universities who nourish the interest in our dramatist through writing and performance (Kaaber).

In addition we wanted to draw on international scholars who over a long period and in various capacities have become friends of the department. It is a great joy that we can count such distinguished Shakespeareans among our friends, and that they have been so ready to contribute and thus give our publication an international dimension. The hub in this network is Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Centre. Contacts made at the International Shakespeare Conferences resulted in Robert Weimann's lecturing at Copenhagen University many years ago
and subsequent links with the German Shakespeare Gesellschaft. Peter Holland accepted an invitation to come to Copenhagen and lecture when he was Director of the Shakespeare Institute. Finally, we are very pleased to count Paul Edmondson, Educational Director at the Shakespeare Centre, among our contributors and friends, both for his own services as organizer and lecturer to Copenhagen groups, and as the current representative of an institution which for decades has welcomed Danish students and lovers of Shakespeare in pursuit of Stratford's unique academic and dramatic possibilities.

We thank them all and wish that our readers may find as much enjoyment in reading this collection of essays as we have had in editing it.

Niels Bugge Hansen
Søs Haugaard