Monika Smialkowska

Shakespeare's Tercentenary

Staging Nations and Performing Identities in 1916

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Produktbeschreibung

"The 1916 global commemorations of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death responded to imperial and national identity crises during the First World War. This study juxtaposes patriotic uses of Shakespeare with decentralising, racially and socially empowering voices, illuminating Shakespeare's legacies in modern politics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781009280877
• ISBN-10: 1009280872
• Artikelnr.: 68271326

Autorenporträt

Monika Smialkowska is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Northumbria University. She is the co-editor (with Edmund G. C. King) of Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916¿2016 (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Unser Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Germany
2. 'Our English Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Britain
3. Shakespeare among the Allies
4. 'Not primarily patriotic'? the tercentenary and American national identity
5. Voices from the margins: the tercentenary and American racial and ethnic minorities
Conclusion: lest we forget.