Eric Nicholson Libri

More than just a walking guide, The Ulysses Guide provides a guide to James Joyce's novel Ulysses by following its eighteen episodes on their original locations, and recreating the Dublin of 1904 against the background of today's streetscape.

Focusing on a performative and stage-centered perspective, this book explores early modern European theater as a dynamic international phenomenon. It highlights how theater not only depicted but also facilitated material and symbolic exchanges across borders. By analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the work emphasizes cultural relationships characterized by exchange and reciprocity, challenging traditional views of unilateral power dynamics and domination in this historical context.

Exploring early modern theater across multiple cultures, this collection of essays places Shakespeare alongside his contemporaries within the broader contexts of English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali theater. Contributors analyze the exchange of theatrical elements, genres, and practices across geographical and linguistic boundaries. The theme of mobility is central, highlighting both the transnational flow of theatrical influences and the resistance encountered in crossing cultural borders.