"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"--
"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"--
Amy Lidster is Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Authorships and Authority in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Shakespeare at War: A Material History (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: a history of wartime production and reception; Part I: 1. Royal Shakespeare: Commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63); 2. Shakespeare as propaganda: British military performances during the American revolutionary war (1775-83); 3. 'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815); Interlude. Nostalgia, nation building and the Russian war (1853-56); Part 2: 4. Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the first world war (1914-18); 5. 'What we are fighting for': the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the second world war (1939-45); 6. 'Anti-war' Shakespeare: just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq war (2003-11); Conclusion: wartime Shakespeare ¿ 'a playable surface'.
Introduction: a history of wartime production and reception; Part I: 1. Royal Shakespeare: Commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63); 2. Shakespeare as propaganda: British military performances during the American revolutionary war (1775-83); 3. 'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815); Interlude. Nostalgia, nation building and the Russian war (1853-56); Part 2: 4. Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the first world war (1914-18); 5. 'What we are fighting for': the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the second world war (1939-45); 6. 'Anti-war' Shakespeare: just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq war (2003-11); Conclusion: wartime Shakespeare ¿ 'a playable surface'.
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