Márta Hargitai is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the School of English and American Studies, ELTE, Budapest. She holds a PhD in Early Modern English literature. She has a major academic interest in Renaissance drama, philosophy, art, and theology as well as in film adaptations. Her publications include articles on the notion of time and space in Macbeth and The Tempest, the special affinities of Hitchcock’s films with Shakespearean theatre and dramaturgy, on masters or servants in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth, on Faustus’s decision on a possible belief-disbelief vs fixity-change spectrum, the various interpretations of the ‘bank and shoal of time’ metaphor in Macbeth, and most recently on restorative and reflective nostalgia in Renaissance drama. Recently, she has been guest editor of The Anachronist special issue on Film and Culture (https://ojs.elte.hu/theanachronist).

puppets, subalternity, intercultural power negotiations