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Shakespeare and European politics / edited by Dirk Delabastita, Jozef de Vos, and Paul Franssen ; with a foreword by Ton Hoenselaars.

Van Pelt Library PR2971.E85 S5 2008
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Delabastita, Dirk.
Vos, Jozef de, 1945-
Franssen, Paul, 1955-
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Europe--Congresses.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Politics and literature--Europe--Congresses.
Politics and literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Europe--Congresses.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Translations--History and criticism--Congresses.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History--Congresses.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence--Congresses.
Criticism and interpretation.
History.
Translations.
Europe--In literature--Congresses.
Europe.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008]
Contents:
Part I Geography, History, and Politics
Making Shakespeare National / Joep Leerssen 36
Twenty-three Skidoo: Bringing Home the Bard / Terence Hawkes 56
"Here in Vienna": The Setting of Measure for Measure and the Political Semiology of Shakespeare's Europe / Roderick J. Lyall 74
Shakespeare, Joyce, and the Politics of European Traditions / Raphael Ingelbien 90
Part II Politics and/on the Stage
Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Juan de Grimaldi: Cultural Politics and French Troops in Spain / Clara Calvo 109
Coriolanus in France from 1933 to 1977: Two Extreme Interpretations / Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine 124
Der Merchant von Velence: The Merchant of Venice in London, Berlin, and Budapest during World War II / Zoltan Markus 143
Measuring the "Most Cheerful Barrack": Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure in Hungary under the Kadar Regime (1964-85) / Veronika Schandl 158
Feminist Movement and the Balance of Power in John Cranko's Ballet The Taming of the Shrew (Stuttgart, 1969) / Nancy Isenberg 169
Rewriting Shakespeare: Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller, and the Politics of Performance / Lawrence Guntner 179
Hybridization: A New Trend in German Shakespeare Productions / Wilhelm Hortmann 196
Part III The Politics of Criticism
Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers: Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience and the Political Agendas of Shakespeare Criticism / Bettina Boecker 220
Hamlet and Modernism: T. S. Eliot and G. Wilson Knight / Janet Clare 234
"What dost thou think 'tis worth?": Timon of Athens and Politics as a Nonreligious Religion / Antonella Piazza 246
Reeducating Germany: BBC Shakespeare 1945 / Andreas Hofele 255
Part IV Translating Politics, Politicizing Translation
Translating Europe into Your England / Dominique Goy-Blanquet 286
Conservatism and Liberalism in the Four Spanish Renderings of Ducis's Hamlet / Angel-Luis Pujante, Keith Gregor 304
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Socialist Realism: A Case Study in Intersemiotic Translation / Karen Bennett 318
The Smithy of the Soul: Shakespeare, Translation, and Identity / Michael Cronin 329
Anthologies, Translations, and European Identities / Dirk Delabastita 343.
Notes:
A selection of papers from the international conference Shakespeare and European Politics, hosted in Utrecht in December 2003 by the universities of Utrecht, Namur, and Ghent, in conjunction with the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780874130041
0874130042
OCLC:
163708206

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