Shakespeare and Wikipedia. Two words which belong to highly different circles of learning, while Wikipedia is often mentioned on the blacklist of most teachers, Shakespeare belongs to the highest spheres of learning. Yet, the Hungarian Shakespeare Committee is enthusiastic about bringing Shakespeare into the digital world for Hungarian readers and providing a safe source for…
This year is the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Honouring the uprising I have decided to compose an article in which I focus on one of the greatest figures of twentieth century Ireland, Seamus Heaney. Died in 2013 at the age of 74, Heaney was considered a key figure in Irish poetry. Robert…
I had an idea for a story. It came to me one day after hearing about another murderous police officer being acquitted in my hometown of Baltimore. I asked myself what would happen if a perfectly just AI governed us instead of a corrupt state. A computer cannot be bribed. A computer would not acquit…
A review of Örkény Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (dir. Bagossy László) by Komáromi Tímea What characterises the performance of Hamlet in Örkény Theatre is modern thinking. Putting Shakespeare – or any other Renaissance play – into a 21st century context is always a challenge, one that not all adaptations can fully rise to. In…
Previously, we looked at the movie Dark City and the ambiguous question that arises in it from a more general point of view. The argument was cut with turning to the constituents of personality. That is, whether a person can remain the same person after receiving memories that normally would not be his or her…
What does a Shakespeare scholar do when, following her heart, she ends up as a stay-at-home mum in the American Midwest? Well, what she would always do – look for Shakespeare in her vicinity. Luckily, yours truly landed not on a desert island, but at the University of Notre Dame, one of the best colleges…
As explained in my previous blog post, Yeats created an elitist, authoritarian myth of Jonathan Swift during his time spent in Fascist Italy (in the city of Rapallo). Now I am going to show you how he appropriated his reading of Swift to the Irish context and his own elitist discourse of decay. In The Words…
Over the last few months, my research interest has turned towards the examination of the influence of Italian Fascism and authoritarian politics on William Butler Yeats’s oeuvre. I usually discuss this topic with regard to Luigi Pirandello’s and Yeats’s theatre, but this time, I chose to explore this theme in Yeats’s reading of the eighteenth-century…
I wish to further elaborate on the linguistic tutelage of Moldavian society, i.e. foreign languages assuming the role of official/national language in Moldova. After 1991 Moldova passed from the linguistic tutelage of Russian to that of Romanian, the latter being the closest variety to the local dialect. The Moldavian dialect, as it never had a…