Udgivelser/Publications

Her ses et udvalg af mine akademiske udgivelser, anmeldelser, udstillinger og anden populærformidling / This is a selection of my scholarly publications and non-academic outputs:

Books:

Refskou, A.S. (2025). Shakespeare’s Compassion: Emotion and the Classics on the Early Modern Stage. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury (in press)

Edited collections:

Refskou, A.S., M. Amorim and V.M. de Carvalho (eds). (2019), Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology, pp. 1-301. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury. Reviewed in Skene Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies and in Theatre Journal

Journal special issues:

Refskou, A.S. (ed.) (2021). ‘Representing Richard: Shakespeare, Otherness and Diversity in Global Settings’. Otherness: Essays and Studies, Special issue, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1-117

Book chapters:

Refskou, A.S., (2025) ‘Remembering Lady Macbeth: Gender and Revision in the Memoirs of Johanne Luise Heiberg’, in P. Prescott and J.F. Cerdá (eds), Macbeth in European Culture. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury (in preparation)

Refskou, A.S. (2024), ‘Word Games: Affect and Play in Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet’, in E. Whipday (ed), Shakespeare/Play. Arden Shakespeare Intersections, Bloomsbury

Refskou, A.S. (2023), ‘”Precurse of feared events”: A Pre-War Hamlet at Elsinore, 1939’, in A. Lidster and S. Massai (eds), Shakespeare at War: A Material History. Cambridge University Press

Refskou, A.S. (2023), ‘Commemoration and Conflict at Hamlet’s Castle: The 1916 Elsinore Mindefest’, in N. Keinanen and P. Sivefors (eds), Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury.

Refskou, A.S. and T. Khair (2023), ‘New Words: Language and Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Global South’, in J. Kingsley-Smith and W. Rampone (eds), Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.

Refskou, A.S. and H. de Witt (2023), ‘Curating Indian Shakespeares at the BFI: Helen de Witt and Anne Sophie Refskou in conversation’, in K. Chatterjee and V. Panjwani (eds), Familiar Strangers: Recontextualising Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury.

Refskou, A.S. (2021), ‘Unhomely Shakespeares: Diplomacy and Interculturalism in Elsinore’, in N. Cinpoes, F. March and P. Prescott (eds), Shakespeare on European Festival Stages. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury.

Refskou, A.S. (2019), ‘”Not where he eats, but where he is eaten”: Rethinking Otherness in British Global Shakespeare’, in A.S. Refskou, M. Amorim, and V.M. de Carvalho (eds), Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury.

Refskou, A.S. and M.T. Burnett (2019), ‘Past and Present Trajectories for Global Shakespeare: Mark Thornton Burnett in conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou’, in A.S. Refskou, M. Amorim, and V.M. de Carvalho (eds), Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology. Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury

Refskou, A.S. (2015), ‘Reading (with) the Actor’s Body in Titus Andronicus‘. In Shakespeare 450 Anos, ed. R.B.A Closel and R. Marin, Instituto Shakespeare Brazil. Translated into Portuguese (‘Lendo (com) o Corpo do Ator em Titus Andronicus’).

Journal articles and reviews:

Refskou, A.S. (2024), ‘Affektive Genklange: Shakespeare og antikkens kvindeskikkelser.’ Litteraturmagasinet Standart.

Refskou, A.S. (2021), ‘”No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity”: Compassion and the Non-human in Richard III’. Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, Performance, Special issue: ‘Shakespeare: Our-Posthumanist’. 24 (39): 121-135.2017.

Refskou, A.S. (2022), ‘Humanist Shakespeare? Xenophobia and Compassion in Sir Thomas More’, in T. Hoenselaars and S. O’Neill (eds), The Shakespearean International Yearbook 19. Routledge.

Refskou, A.S. (2021),’Translating Richard: A Conversation about Shakespeare, Otherness and Mexico with Alfredo Michel Modenessi’.Otherness: Essays and Studies 9.1.

Refskou, A.S. (2017), ‘Whose Castle is it Anyway? : Local/Global Negotiations of a Shakespearean Location’. Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, Performance 15.1.

Refskou, A.S. (2015), ’Compassionate Perception and Touching Experiences in Shakespearean Drama’. Critical Survey. 27(1): 60-84.2015.

Refskou, A.S. and L.S. Thomasen (2014), ’Handling the Theme of Hands in Early Modern Cross-over Contexts’. Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO). 5: 31-55.2014.

‘Shakespeare, Globalization, and the Digital Revolution: Stanley Wells in Conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou’. New Theatre Quarterly, 30.1 (2014). Conversation piece.

Refskou, A.S. (2014).‘Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen’. Cultural History 3.2. Book review.

Refskou, A.S. (2013), ‘William Shakespeare: Samlede skuespil I oversættelse, bind I-II, oversat af Niels Brunse’. Litteraturmagasinet Standart, 1, 2013. Anmeldelse.

Refskou, A.S. (2013), ‘Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre ed. S. Hampton-Reeves and B. Escolme’. Peripeti: tidsskrift for dramaturgiske studier. Book review.

Refskou, A.S. (2011), ‘Shakespeares Ansigter af Niels Brunse’. Litteraturmagasinet Standart, 2, 2011. Anmeldelse.

Refskou, A.S. (2011), ‘Can Transcultural Theatre Raise the Dead?: Exploring Kaj Munk’s Ordet via Peter Brook’s Essentialist Aesthetic’. Transnational Literature. 4(1): 1-10.

Populærformidling, udstillinger m.m (exhibitions, media etc):

2022: ‘Nedlukning af kulturlivet gør os følelsesmæssigt immune!’: William Shakespeare om nedlukningen af kulturlivet’, Brian Traantoft Rasmussen i samarbejde med Anne Sophie Haahr Refskou. Vid&Sans 13/01/2022.

2021: ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ with Dame Judi Dench (BBC)

2020. ‘Hvad kan vi bruge Shakespeare til i vores pandemiske virkelighed?’. POV.

2019. Shakespeares verden på Kronborg/Shakespeare’s World at Kronborg – Exhibition. Udstilling/Populærformidling.

2018. ‘Directions for Directing: Directing Shakespeare at Hamlet’s Castle’. Routledge Performance Archive/Web companion to A. Sidiropoulou, Directions for Directing. Routledge. Online archive contribution.

2017. ‘Times out of Joint – A Glance at Hamlet in Elsinore 1816-2016’. Peripeti: tidsskrift for dramaturgiske studier 26. Essay.

2016. Hamlet at Elsinore 1816-2016 – Exhibition. Udstilling/Populærformidling.

2013. ‘”At være eller ikke, sådan er det”: interview med Niels Brunse af Anne Sophie Refskou’. Litteraturmagasinet Standart, 1. 2013. Interview.