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Shakespeare and the Second World War : Memory, Culture, Identity /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McHugh, Marissa, 1980-, Makaryk, Irena R. (Irena Rima), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Theatre, War, Memory, and Culture / Irena R. Makaryk
  • 1German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War / Werner Habicht
  • 2 Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War / Zeno Ackermann
  • 3 Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War / Mark Bayer
  • 4 'Caesar's word against the world': Caesarism and the Discourses of Empire / Nancy Isenberg
  • 5 Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece / Tina Krontiris
  • 6 'In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events'
  • Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War / Krystyna Kujawin Courtney
  • 7 Pasternak's Shakespeare in Wartime Russia / Aleksei Semenenko
  • 8 Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 / Ryuta Minami
  • 9 'Warlike Noises': Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars / Alexander C.Y. Huang
  • 10 Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War / Simon Barker
  • 11 Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939-1945 / Peter Billingham
  • 12 Maurice Evans's G.I. Hamlet : Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation / Anne Russell
  • 13The War at 'Home': Representations of Canada and of the Second World War in Star Crossed / Marissa Mchugh
  • 14 Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz / Tibor Egervari
  • 15 Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War / Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams
  • Appendix: List of Productions.