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Preface
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co-founderandthefirstpresidentofthePolishShakespeareSocietylHerinter-
nationalacademiccontacts-withuniversitiesinCanterbury,Oxford,Rome,
Bochum,Birmingham,Exeter,Salzburg,Kent,Padova,tonamejustafew-
haveresultedinmanyfruitfulexchanges,projectsandconferenceslProfessor
GibińskaismemberoftheDeutscheShakespeareGesellschafandtheInter-
nationalShakespeareAssociation,aswellasco-founderandboardmemberof
theEuropeanShakespeareResearchAssociationl
Tearticlesinthisvolumerepresentaspectrumoftopicsrelatedtothe
areasofProfessorGibińska)sownacademicinterestslPartI,focusedonShake-
speare,openswithTeresaBałuk-Ulewiczowa)sdiscussionofthespeculum
traditionreflectedinShakespeare)schronicleplays,analyzingtheplaceofthe
mirror-booktraditioninElizabethanpubliclife,itsprevalenceinShakespeare)s
sources,andShakespeare)semploymentofitsmotifs,imageryandterminol-
ogylTerenceMcCarthyundertakesasearchforthesourceofShakespeare)s
mentionofSirDagonetin2HenryIV,suggestingthatkingArthur)sfoolmust
havebeenacharacterinapopularballadthatfunctionedasintermediarybe-
tweenMalory)sMorteDarthurand16th/17th-centurydramatistslTeEnglish
spokenbyShakespeare)scontemporariesisthetopicofthearticlebyHans-
JürgenDillerwhopresentsastudyof“wrath”and“anger”asfoundinaselec-
tionoflate16th/early17thcenturygenres:medical,religiousandphilosophi-
caltreatises,aswellasfictionalnarratives,bothinproseandinverselTenext
groupofarticlesinPartIfocusesoncontemporarytheatricalandfilmproduc-
tionslMichaelHattawaylinkstheissueoflocalizationsuggestedbytheword
“closet”withananalysisofnumerousscreenproductionsofHamlet,question-
ingtheinterpretationaccordingtowhichHamlet)s“closetscene”isasexually
loadedexpressionoftheprince)sOedipuscomplexlBoikaSokolovadiscusses
ScottHandy)srenditionofMalcolminRupertGoold)s2010televisionproduc-
tionofMacbethintermsofthelinksestablishedbetweentheinterpretation
ofthecharacterandtheendingproposedinthefilmlAndrzejŻurowski)sar-
ticledealswiththeissueofmulticulturalperformance,lookingatavarietyof
ShakespeareanproductionsrangingfromTaiwan,Korea,Uzbekistan,Germa-
ny,Zimbabwe,toBrazillJerzyLimon,writingaboutanepisodefromAMid-
summerNight)sDreamperformedduringthe2009Shakespeareanhappening
inGdańsk,analysesthesemioticsoftheimmenselysuccessfulimprovisation
unexpectedlyforcedontheactorsbytheautograph-huntingaudiencelJacek
FabiszakaddressestheissuesofrealismanduglinessinDerekJarman)sand
KrzysztofWarlikowski)sinterpretationsofTeTempestlPartIcloseswithtexts
onShakespeare)sliteraryreceptionandontranslationlBarbaraSosieńreveals
thestructuralandsemanticcomplexitiesresultingfromtheincorporationof