From the Editors (Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Barbora Příhodová) ................................ 7
Prague Semiotic Stage Revisited – programme ........................................................ 9
Yorick
Pavel Drábek | Launching a Structuralist Assembly: Convening the Scattered Structures.. 13
Fernando de Toro | The Legacy of the Linguistic Circle of Prague............................... 24
Patrice Pavis | Semiology After Semiology .....................................................................37
Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich | The Schools of Structuralism – An Overview ................. 50
Veronika Ambros | Puppets, Statues, Men, Objects, and the Prague School .................74
Šárka Havlíčková Kysová | ʻAsian’ Theatre Sign: Its Potential and Its Limits in the
History of the Czech Structuralist Thought...................................................................... 89
Andrés Pérez-Simón | Manufacturing Authenticity: Anonymous Acting Celebrities
in Atalaya’s Production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (2009)........................100
Herta Schmid | The Concept of Sign, Its Origin and Influence on Mukařovský’s Struc-
turalism.............................................................................................................................112
Yana Meerzon | Concretization‒Transduction‒Adaptation: On Prague School Legacy in
Theatre Studies Today......................................................................................................125
Eva Šlaisová | “Aktualisaceˮ in English Scholarly Literature: Interpretation, Ignorance
and Misunderstanding......................................................................................................154
Emil Volek | Theatrology an Zich, and Beyond: Notes Towards a Metacritical Repositioning
of Theory, Semiotics, Theatre, and Aesthetics........................................................168
Reviews
Eva Stehlíková | Payment on Debt. Herta Schmid: Struktury a funkce ........................187
Joseph E. Brandesky | Kateřina Miholová. Reproductions of Twentieth Century Czech
Theatre in Context: The Coming to Wisdom of Don Quixote (1914) and Julius Caesar
(1936) ................................................................................................................................189
Naďa Satková | The Faces of European Direction. Contemporary European Theatre
Directors...........................................................................................................................192
Pavel Drábek | John Russell Brown: Studying Shakespeare in Performance ...............194
Pavel Drábek | The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare ..............................196
Christian M. Billing | Marie Zdeňková, Josef Vomáčka: Miroslav Melena: Scénograf a
architekt (Scenographer and Architect) ..........................................................................199
Pavel Drábek | Alice Dubská: The Travels of the Puppeteers Brát and Pratte Through
Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...................................................... 206
Barbora Příhodová | Donatella Barbieri: Encounters in the Archives......................... 207
Barbora Leštáchová | Ivan R.V. Rumánek: Japonská dráma nó: žáner vo vývoji...... 209
CONTENTS
Šárka Havlíčková Kysová | Nicola Savarese: Eurasian Theatre...................................211
Walter Puchner | Jiří Veltruský: An Approach to the Semiotics of Theatre.................. 220
Archive
Barbora Příhodová, Šárka Havlíčková Kysová | Miroslav Kouřil’s Theory of
Scenography in the Archive Materials: a Research Report ............................................. 227
Jarmila F. Veltrusky | The Background Story of the Book........................................... 232