{"product_id":"hamlet-reimagined-through-central-european-experimental-theatre-the-tragically-historie-of-hamlet-prince-of-denmarke-prema-poljskom-tekstu-jozefa-paszkowskoga-nanovo-procitana-i-promisljena-od-stanislava-wyspianskoga","title":"[“HAMLET” REIMAGINED THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] The tragically Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Prema poljskom tekstu Józefa Paszkowskoga nanovo pročitana i promišljena od Stanislava Wyspiańskoga","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eSHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eIzvanredno izdanje Matice Hrvatske; tisak Kuzme Rožmanića, Zagreb, 1921.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eComplete title: [“HAMLET” REIMAGINED THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] The tragically Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Prema poljskom tekstu Józefa Paszkowskoga nanovo pročitana i promišljena od Stanislava Wyspiańskoga. Preveo s poljskoga Julije Benešić.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eOriginal wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21.5 x 15 cm). In Croatian. 126, [2] p., b\/w reproduced portraits. Covers and the first pages slightly stained, spine recently rebacked with a grey cloth strip; very occasional creasing. Overall, a well-preserved copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eA rare first Croatian translation of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e by Julije Benešić (1883-1957), prepared not from the English original but from the Polish text of Józef Paszkowski (1817-1861), as subsequently re-read and reconceptualised by Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907). Published in Zagreb in the interwar period, the edition reflects the transmission of Polish experimental theatre and Central European modernism into Croatian literary culture, and the modernist reinvention of Hamlet across linguistic and cultural boundaries. The title page deliberately reproduces the orthography and visual language of the 1603 English quarto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eThe edition documents the transformation of Hamlet from an Elizabethan tragedy into a twentieth-century theatrical and intellectual project shaped by Polish modernism. Rather than functioning as a direct translation, the text represents a multilayered reinterpretation in which Hamlet is filtered through the aesthetic programme of Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907), one of the leading figures of the Young Poland (\u003ci\u003eMłoda Polska\u003c\/i\u003e) movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eFor Wyspiański, Hamlet became a vehicle for exploring questions of political inertia, collective responsibility, historical memory, and national self-examination. His engagement with the drama occupied a singular position within Polish theatre history and influenced subsequent interpretations in Central Europe. Through Julije Benešić's translation, this particular Polish reimagining of Hamlet entered Croatian literary culture, forming an unusual intellectual bridge between Kraków and Zagreb.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eShakespeare's original text, Józef Paszkowski's nineteenth-century Polish translation, Wyspiański's modernist intervention, and Benešić's Croatian rendering are all explicitly acknowledged on the title page. Few editions so clearly reveal the layered process through which Hamlet was reimagined and circulated across linguistic and cultural boundaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAs of October 2026, OCLC records only three copies worldwide: one at the Biblioteka Narodowa in Poland, and two in the United States, at the Folger Shakespeare Library and New York University (OCLC 42201154 \u0026amp; 80376113).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Khalkedon Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67940899356803,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/3294\/6819\/files\/10_9933b320-c471-4ce2-8be7-4cef30a2a958.jpg?v=1792316988","url":"https:\/\/khalkedonrarebooks.com\/products\/hamlet-reimagined-through-central-european-experimental-theatre-the-tragically-historie-of-hamlet-prince-of-denmarke-prema-poljskom-tekstu-jozefa-paszkowskoga-nanovo-procitana-i-promisljena-od-stanislava-wyspianskoga","provider":"Khalkedon Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}