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Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517489
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare at War written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.
Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442644028
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Second World War written by Irene Rima Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society's self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this 'universal' author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 19391945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.
Author : Irena Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698381
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Second World War written by Irena Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.
Author : Nicholas Shakespeare
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062297058
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Priscilla written by Nicholas Shakespeare and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, photographs, and journals, surrounded by suitors and living the dangerous existence of a British woman in a country controlled by the enemy. He had heard rumors that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth turned out to be far more complicated. As he investigated his aunt's life, dark secrets emerged, and Nicholas discovered the answers to the questions over which he'd been puzzling: What caused the breakdown of Priscilla's marriage to a French aristocrat? Why had she been interned in a prisoner-of-war camp, and how had she escaped? And who was the "Otto" with whom she was having a relationship as Paris was liberated? Piecing together fragments of one woman's remarkable and tragic life, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history.
Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131705640X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition written by Paola Pugliatti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.
Author : Monika Smialkowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009280872
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Tercentenary written by Monika Smialkowska and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers how global Shakespeare Tercentenary commemorations addressed crises of imperial and national identities during the First World War.
Author : Irena Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442616512
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism written by Irena Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of William Shakespeare have long been embraced by communist and socialist governments. One of the central cultural debates of the Soviet period concerned repertoire, including the usefulness and function of pre-revolutionary drama for the New Man and the New Society. Shakespeare survived the byzantine twists and turns of Soviet cultural politics by becoming established early as the Great Realist whose works should be studied, translated, and emulated. This view of Shakespeare as a humanist and realist was transferred to a host of other countries including East Germany, Hungary, Poland, China, and Cuba after the Second World War. Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism traces the reception of Shakespeare from 1917 to 2002 and addresses the relationship of Shakespeare to Marxist and communist ideology. Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price have brought together an internationally-renowned group of theatre historians, practitioners, and scholars to examine the extraordinary conjunction of Shakespeare and ideology during a fascinating period of twentieth-century history. Roughly historical in their arrangement, the essays in this collection suggest the complicated and convoluted trajectory of Shakespeare's reputation. The general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like Feste's 'chev'ril glove,' often simultaneously served and subverted the official ideology. Contributors: Alexey Bartoshevitch Laura Raidonis Bates Maria Clara Versiani Galery Lawrence Guntner Werner Habicht Maik Hamburger Martin Hilský Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney Irena R. Makaryk Zoltán Márkus Sharon O'Dair Arkady Ostrovsky Joseph G. Price Laurence Senelick Shu-hua Wang Robert Weimann Xiao Yang Zhang
Author : Yu Jin Ko
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031655109
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare’s Original Stage Conditions and their Afterlives across the Globe written by Yu Jin Ko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clara Calvo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316390322
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Celebrating Shakespeare written by Clara Calvo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite status and how statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising Shakespeare.
Author : Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600287
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Kozintsev's Shakespeare Films written by Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Grigory Kozintsev's two cinematic Shakespeare adaptations, Hamlet (Gamlet, 1964), and King Lear (Korol Lir, 1970). The films are considered in relation to the historical, artistic and cultural contexts in which they appear, and in relation to the contributions of Dmitri Shostakovich, who wrote the films' scores; and Boris Pasternak, whose translations Kozintsev used. The films are analyzed respective to their place in the translation and performance history of Hamlet and King Lear from their first appearances in Tsarist Russian arts and letters. In particular, this study is concerned with the ways in which these plays have been used as a means to critique the government and the country's problems in an age in which official censorship was commonplace. Kozintsev's films (as well as his theatrical productions of Hamlet and Lear) continue along this trajectory of protest by providing a vehicle for him and his collaborators to address the oppression, violence and corruption of Soviet society. It was just this sort of covert political protest that finally effected the dissolution and fall of the USSR.
Author : Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474295851
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Shakespeare Hut written by Ailsa Grant Ferguson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war. With a purpose-built performance space, its tiny stage hosted the biggest theatrical stars of the age. The Hut is a vivid and unique case study in cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare. One extraordinary building brings together Shakespeare's place in First World War theatre, in emerging new post-colonial identities, the story of Shakespearean performance in the twentieth century and in the struggle for women's suffrage. Grant Ferguson transports you to the Hut and its lively, idiosyncratic world. From a feminist-led stage to a hub of Indian intellectual and political debate, from a Shakespeare memorial to an Anzac social club, this is the story of a building truly at a crossroads.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408151936
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book King John written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of King John provides: - A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship. - Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text. - A full, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts. - A full index to the introduction and notes. - A select bibliography of references and further reading. With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, The Arden Shakespeare is the finest edition of Shakespeare you can find. King John tells the story of John's struggle to retain the crown in the face of alternative claims to the throne from France and is one of the earlier history plays. The new Arden Third Series edition offers students a comprehensive introduction exploring the play's relationship to its source and to later plays in the history cycle, as well as giving a full account of its critical and performance history, including key productions in 2015 which marked the anniversary of Magna Carta. As such this is the most detailed, informative and up-to-date student edition available.
Author : Christa Jansohn
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643905904
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014 written by Christa Jansohn and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of essays on Shakespeare Jubilees around the world, from 1769 to 2014. The contributions range from the elaborate celebrations in Shakespeare's hometown to more modest festivities elsewhere; and from ambitious, theatrical, and politically loaded demonstrations to nationally colored, culturally distinct, and idiosyncratic commemorations. The variety of ways in which geographically distant countries have remembered Shakespeare has never before been the object of a comparative study. The book's essays will throw new light on Shakespeare as a shared international heritage. (Series: Studies on English Literature / Studien zur englischen Literatur - Vol. 27) [Subject: Literary Studies, Shakespearean Studies, Theater Studies]
Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350266272
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book British Internment and the Internment of Britons written by Gilly Carr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire. The book brings together a range of interdisciplinary specialists including archaeologists, historians, and heritage practitioners to give a full overview of the topic of internment internationally. Very little has been written about the experience of interned Britons on the continent during the Second World War compared with continentals interned in Britain. Even fewer accounts exist of the regime in British Dominions where British guards presided over the camps. This collection is the first to bring together the British experiences, as the common theme, in one study. The new research presented here also offers updated statistics for the camps whilst considering the period between 1945 to the present day through related site heritage issues.
Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350117749
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Hamlet: The State of Play written by Sonia Massai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.
Author : Kenneth S. Rothwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543118
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (431 download)
Download or read book A History of Shakespeare on Screen written by Kenneth S. Rothwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of A History of Shakespeare on Screen updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.
Author : Jennifer Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107181119
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Shakespearean Star written by Jennifer Barnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- Henry V -- Hamlet -- Richard III -- Macbeth I (1955-60): contexts -- Macbeth II (2012- ): legacy -- Epilogue
