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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lidster, Amy

Titel

Wartime Shakespeare : performing narratives of conflict

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Introduction : a history of wartime production and reception -- Royal Shakespeare : commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63) -- Shakespeare as propaganda : British military performances during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) -- 'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French Revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815) -- Interlude : nostalgia, nation building and the Russian War (1853-56) -- Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the First World War (1914-18) -- 'What we are fighting for' : the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the Second World War (1939-45) -- 'Anti-war' Shakespeare : just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq War (2003-11) -- Conclusion : wartime Shakespeare - 'a playable surface'.
• "This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts"--