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Texts Waiting for History
William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller
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Heiner Müllerâs re-imaginings of William Shakespeare have puzzled and fascinated readers and spectators alike for the past forty-five years. For the first time, this study addresses all of Müllerâs re-workings of Shakespeare, including dramatic adaptations, translations, poems, references in interviews and in his autobiography, as well as fragments of unfinished projects, not forgetting the strong Shakespearean echoes in Müllerâs last play, Germania 3. An analysis of Müllerâs diverse positions regarding different understandings of history and of its catastrophic violence suggests that Shakespeare is at the literary and theoretical core of Müllerâs always complex and conflicted relation with philosophy of history and with the notions of heritage, fragmentation and difference.
âThis excellently-researched and clearly argued book will be of interest to any Shakespeareans interested in Müllerâs adaptations of Shakespeare and those who are interested in the pleasures and paradoxes of rewriting Shakespeare more generally. It combines breadth with depth in an engaging and thoughtful way and argues for the centrality of Shakespeare to Müllerâs development as a dramatist without suggesting that this is an inevitable or necessary trajectory. As a comprehensive account of Müllerâs transformative engagement with Shakespeare, it will certainly become a key reference for future studies of these plays.â - Francesca Rayner, University of Minho, Portugal, in: Sederi, Vol. 25, pp. 207-11
âGomes manages to give an extensive and well-written reimagining of Müllerâs turn to Shakespeare as he reworked four of his most widely discussed plays [â¦] Gomesâs claim to read Müllerâs plays as powerful interventions in a complex political and cultural context is broadly successful. He thereby not only contributes an important new aspect to scholarship on Müller but has also produced an excellent general introduction to Müllerâs plays.â - Stephan Ehrig, University of Bristol, in: Modern Language Review 110.4 (2015), pp. 1171-73
âGomes manages to give an extensive and well-written reimagining of Müllerâs turn to Shakespeare as he reworked four of his most widely discussed plays [â¦] Gomesâs claim to read Müllerâs plays as powerful interventions in a complex political and cultural context is broadly successful. He thereby not only contributes an important new aspect to scholarship on Müller but has also produced an excellent general introduction to Müllerâs plays.â - Stephan Ehrig, University of Bristol, in: Modern Language Review 110.4 (2015), pp. 1171-73
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction â Texts Waiting for History 1. Incorporating Shakespeare 2. A Cemetery Is Not a Lunapark 3. Emergency Brake 4. Barbarism Begins at Home 5. Rome instead of Berlin Conclusion Annex 1 Annex 2 Bibliography Index