Content Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Tomáš Kačer / Editorial ...........................................................................7 Yorick Svitlana Shurma, Wei-lun Lu / A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of LIFE and DEATH in English and Ukrainian: A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach to Hamlet’s Soliloquy .................9 Šárka Havlíčková Kysová / Stage Metaphors in Verdi’s Otello: Miloš Wasserbauer’s State Theatre Production (Brno 1967) in the Context of Otello’s Staging Tradition .......................... 29 Jan Motal / Cognitive Phenomenology: the Promising Pragmatic Marriage of Methodologies in the Field of Theatre Studies? ....................................................................... 59 Tomasz Ciesielski / Contemporary Dance Theatre in Neurocognitive Perspective – Granhøj Dans Case .......................................................................................................................... 76 Dorota Sajewska, Dorota Sosnowska / Blackness as Medium. Body in Contemporary Theatre Practice and Theory .......................................................................................................... 91 Spectrum Dita Lánská / Meaning(s) of Otakar Zich’s Concept of the ‘Semantic Image’ .........................103 Guests Martin Bernátek / Speculative Realities, Practice as Theory. Interview with Dorota Sosnowska ..................................................................................................123 Tereza Konývková / Polarity and Coherence of ‘Making’ and ‘Viewing’ in Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practice. Interview with Knut Ove Arntzen ..............................................130 Reviews Libor Vodička / Are These the Last Volumes of Czech Theatrical Encyclopaedia? .............. 133 Andrea Jochmanová / Helena Spurná’s Oldřich Stibor (1901–1943) Theatre Director and Man ............................................................................................................... 137 Tatjana Lazorčáková / Jan Roubal and His Complex and Complementary ‘Thought’ on Theatre .................................................................................................................... 139 Libor Vodička / The Journey from The Workers’ Theatre to the Municipal Theatre Zlín ....................................................................................................... 142 Zdenka Gočálová / Theatre Life of Prešov. From the Beginnings to the Mid-20th Century ..................................................................................................................146 Pavel Drábek / Bakhtin and Theatre? ......................................................................................... 152 Pavel Drábek / Three Books on New Dramaturgy and Adaptation from Bloomsbury Methuen Drama .............................................................................................. 156 Events Tomáš Kubart /Art of Action of 1960s and 1970s in the 20th Century and Its Documentation in the Permanent Exhibition of the National Gallery – Commented Tour with Pavlína Morganová ..................................................................................161 Barbora Kašparová / Bonn – Hommage à Pina Bausch ..............................................................164 Tomáš Kubart / My Body Is Not a Cage .......................................................................................166 Tomáš Kubart / Theatre of Arranging Live Images ....................................................................169 Amálie Bulandrová / Exhibiting Architecture: The Architecture of an Exhibition .................172