
Natália PikliEötvös Loránd University · Department of English Studies
Natália Pikli
Doctor of Philosophy
About
31
Publications
2,694
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
20
Citations
Introduction
early modern culture, literature and theatre; early modern popular culture; Shakespeare and contemporaries, early modern print culture, emblem studies, gender and the early modern world
contemporary (late 20th-early 21st c.) popular culture, drama and theatre (esp. Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Martin McDonagh), contemporary reception of Shakespeare, political theatre
Publications
Publications (31)
The excerpt from Rostand’s Cyrano refers to when the witty knight re-translates a simple sentence into twenty different versions, warning the young man offending him that without talent and knowledge, a simple remark fails. Translations of Shakespeare abound in Hungary, due to a cultic attitude, often resulting in double canonicity if translated by...
The article ponders the possible connections and literary influences between John Donne and William Shakespeare in the 1590s, with a focus on Romeo and Juliet and The Sunne Rising.
The article discusses the historical mutability and political connotations of the geographical signifiers Eastern and Central Europe, and the chronotope Post-Soviet / Post-Communist Europe. It considers the tensions present in these denominations, arguing for the need to defamiliarize and re-define them. Three major sections survey the circumstance...
Shakespeare's popularity on the big screen increased exponentially in the 1990s, largely thanks to Kenneth Branagh's and Baz Luhrmann's films and Shakespeare in Love (1998), co-written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, which became the highest grossing Shakespeare film. In the recent two decades, the popular film industry has also rediscovered the m...
Book review: Dunnum, Eric. Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London. Abingdon-New York: Routledge, 2020. viii + 264 pages. ISBN 978-0-8153-6933-2. Hb. $140.
This book review discusses Judit Mudriczki’s monograph, Shakespeare’s Art of Poesy in King Lear. An Emblematic Mirror of Governance on the Jacobean Stage (Budapest, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2020) in the light of Shakespeare studies. Mudriczki’s book analyses dramaturgical devices, rhetorical and political-philosophical concepts, appearing in Shakespeare...
Table of Contents and Chapter Abstracts
The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandings and responses to notions of 'the stranger' and 'the other'. This groundbreaking collection explores the dissemination of the two plays through Europe in the first two decades of the 21st-century, tracing how productions and in...
Book reviews: Finlayson, J. Caitlin and Amrita Sen, eds. Civic Performance. Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London. Abingdon-New York: Routledge, 2020. xiv + 254 pages. ISBN 978-1-138-22839-9. Hb. £96.
https://www.reciti.hu/2020/6300
Doromb. Közköltészeti Tanulmányok 8. Szerk. Csörsz Rumen István. Budapest, reciti, 2020. pp. 53-76.
Folklore, popular poetry, and book market: the morris dance and cheap print in early modern England
The study discusses the transmission of folklore phenomena in early modern England by authors active in the cheap pr...
https://www.reciti.hu/wp-content/uploads/26_Pikli.pdf
A tanulmány röviden felvázolja azokat a jelenségeket, melyek a kora újkori Angliában a korabeli populáris és elit kultúra közti komplex interakciók eredményeként jöttek létre, főként William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson és más, kevésbé ismert szerzők (Philip Stubbes, Nicholas Breton) műveire támaszkodva, elemezve azt, hogy a korabeli közszínház és népsz...
full text available at http://reciti.hu/2015/3247 and http://reciti.hu/wp-content/uploads/nh3_vn.pdf
The Shakespearean hobby-horse, mentioned emphatically in Hamlet, brings into focus a number of problems related to early modern popular culture. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the word was characterised by semantic ambivalence, with simultaneously valid meanings of a breed of horse, a morris character, a foolish person, and a...
Full text available at: http://seas3.elte.hu/angolpark/CultMem/EssaysonCulturalMemory.pdf
The 'tongue' of Shakespearean shrews offers a crux of diverse cultural discourses, referring to early modern gossips and shrews, the examination of which proves instructive both in synchronic and diachronic aspects, across geographical borders. The present paper focusses on cultural phenomena surrounding the figure and the etymology of the 'shrew'...
The fusion of the comic and the tragic in the Shakespearean oeuvre seems a commonplace, however, in-depth studies devoted to this field have been quite rare. The present work chose laughter as an umbrella term and is mainly based on critical practice. The different manifestations of laughter and the (open or latent) comic on stage/page are examined...