Shakespeare’s Cultural Diversity

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Published: Dec 20, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2017-0015
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Shakespeare language history human nature translation dissemination cultural diversity

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Marta Gibińska
Jozef Tischner European University, Krakow, Poland

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400 hundred years of Shakespeare's presence in world-wide theatres, schools, literature, film, and even languages must give us pause. It is worth reflecting on what there is in the texts that have come down to us that answers this great and obviously most diversified horizon of reception. The paper will try to present Shakespearean plots, characters and themes and examine them for their potential to become appropriated into the very centres of multiple cultural polysystems.

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Gibińska, M. “Shakespeare’s Cultural Diversity”. Linguaculture, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2017, pp. 18-30, doi:10.1515/lincu-2017-0015.
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Marta Gibińska, Jozef Tischner European University, Krakow, Poland

Prof. dr hab. Marta Gibińska worked until 2012 at the Jagiellonian University; at present she teaches at the Jozef Tischner European University in Krakow, Poland. Her special fields areShakespeare studies and translation studies. Her publications include among others Functioning of Language in Shakespeare‘s Plays. A Pragma-dramatic Approach (1989), and Polish Poets Read Shakespeare (2000). She has also published extensively on theatrical history of Shakespeare in Poland and on Polish translations of Shakespeare. She is member of the Polish Shakespeare Society, Deutsche Shakespearegesellschaft, International Shakespeare Association, and European Shakespeare Research Association.

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