Shakespeare and war / edited by Ros King and Paul J.C.M. Franssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Ros.

Franssen, Paul, 1955-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Political and social views.

War in literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History.

Politics and literature.

Literature and history--Great Britain.

Literature and history.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia, including some with first-hand experience of the Yugoslav civil war or of life behind the 'iron curtain'. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary serving in the Spanish army in the Netherlands, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold-war Romania.

Together, these essays constitute a new approach to reading Shakespeare; one that integrates historical and cultural research with performance analysis to assess the relevance of the plays as presented and performed in different countries and at different moments in history. By returning several times to Henry V, the book asks how it is that the same play has been used both to comment adversely on the war in the Falklands and to support the war in Iraq.

Contents:

1 War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy / Ros King, Paul J. C. M. Franssen 1

Part I Ideas of War and Peace

2 'The Disciplines of War': Elizabethan War Manuals and Shakespeare's Tragicomic Vision / Ros King 15

3 War in Shakespeare's Edward III / Ellen C. Caldwell 30

4 Shakespeare and Peace / Thomas Kullmann 43

5 Some Social Costs of War / Ruth Morse 56

Part II Rhetoric of War

6 Henry V and the Performance of War / R. Scott Fraser 71

7 Drums and Roses? The Tragicomedy of War in All's Well That Ends Well / Helen Wilcox 84

8 Political Speech and the Wars in King John / Dana Chetrinescu Percec 96

9 'Faking It': Provenance, Persuasion and the Renaissance Military Subject / Simon Barker 109

Part III Translation and Adaptation

10 Religion and War in Romanian Translations of Henry V / Madalina Nicolaescu 125

11 Shakespeare's Coriolanus as Staged in Heiner Muller's Germania 3 / Ruth Freifrau von Ledebur 138

12 'Something is Rotten...' / Niels B. Hansen 153

13 Never-ending Conflict: Man (and Woman) as Death Bearer in Testori's Machetto / Carla Dente 166

Part IV War Time Interpretations

14 The Nightmare of Indifference: Shakespeare's Sonnet 121 and the War in Former Yugoslavia / Ivan Lupic 183

15 Whose 'Triumph'? The Taming of the Shrew in Berlin during World War II / Zoltan Markus 197

16 'So the Falklands. So Agincourt. "Fuck the Frogs"': Michael Bogdanov's English Shakespeare Company's Wars of the Roses / David Carnegie 213

17 Meditations in a Time of (Displaced) War: Henry V, Money, and the Ethics of Performing History / Diana E. Henderson 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index.

ISBN:

0230205089

9780230205086

OCLC:

224445124