Amy Lidster

Wartime Shakespeare

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781009356060
• ISBN-10: 1009356062
• Artikelnr.: 68464503

Autorenporträt

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'.