%0 Journal Article %T Shakespeare¡¯s new contemporariness, or Hamlet in the Yugoslav Drama Theatre of the 21st century %A Alexandra Portmann %J Cahiers ¨¦lisab¨¦thains %@ 2054-4715 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0184767818763427 %X This article investigates how Shakespeare¡¯s Hamlet has become a platform for negotiating memory politics in Serbia in the new millennium. Focusing on two productions in Belgrade¡¯s Yugoslav Drama Theatre since 2005 (Du£¿an Jovanovi£¿, 2005 and Aleksandar Popovski, 2016) and one adaptation, Cirkus istorija (Sonja Vuki£¿evi£¿, 2006), the specific conditions for each of the productions¡¯ actualization are investigated. Through a discussion of these Hamlet productions, the analysis reveals the ways in which the repeated staging of classical dramatic texts, with each production embedded within a specific staging tradition, becomes a renewed source of inspiration for political theatre %K Shakespeare in performance %K Hamlet %K adaptation %K Jan Kott %K memory politics %K Shakespeare ¨¤ la sc¨¨ne %K Hamlet %K adaptation %K Jan Kott %K politique de la m¨¦moire %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0184767818763427