Andreas Höfele presents the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany, from the 1870s to the Cold War era. He explores the identification of Germany with Hamlet, and shows how a whole strand of Shakespeare reception became embedded in German history over this period.
Andreas Höfele presents the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany, from the 1870s to the Cold War era. He explores the identification of Germany with Hamlet, and shows how a whole strand of Shakespeare reception became embedded in German history over this period.
Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University. He is the author of Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre (OUP, 2011) which won the 2012 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature. His publications in German include books on Shakespeare's stagecraft, late nineteenth-century parody, and Malcolm Lowry, as well as six novels. He served as President of the German Shakespeare Society from 2002 to 2011.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * A Note on Texts and Translations * Introduction * 1: Highest Formula: Nietzsche's Shakespeare * 2: Shakespeare in the Master's Circle: Stefan George and the 'Secret Germany' * 3: In the Master's Circle (II): Ernst Kantorowicz * 4: Millions of Ghosts: Weimar Hamlets and the Sorrows of Young Goebbels * 5: Little Otto: Carl Schmitt and the Moor of Venice * 6: Third Reich Shakespeare * 7: 'But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue': Hamlet in Inner Emigration * 8: Hamlet in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt and the Intrusion of the Time * 9: Epilogue: Welcome to the Machine. Berlin 1989 * Bibliography * Index
* List of Illustrations * A Note on Texts and Translations * Introduction * 1: Highest Formula: Nietzsche's Shakespeare * 2: Shakespeare in the Master's Circle: Stefan George and the 'Secret Germany' * 3: In the Master's Circle (II): Ernst Kantorowicz * 4: Millions of Ghosts: Weimar Hamlets and the Sorrows of Young Goebbels * 5: Little Otto: Carl Schmitt and the Moor of Venice * 6: Third Reich Shakespeare * 7: 'But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue': Hamlet in Inner Emigration * 8: Hamlet in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt and the Intrusion of the Time * 9: Epilogue: Welcome to the Machine. Berlin 1989 * Bibliography * Index
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