Shakespeare and war / edited by Emma Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine), editor.

Series:

Shakespeare survey (Cambridge, England) ; 72.

Shakespeare survey ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--War.

War in literature--Congresses.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Shakespeare survey. 72, Shakespeare and war

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Editor's Note

List of Contributors

Contents

List of Illustrations

Henry V after the War on Terror

Economies of Gunpowder and Ecologies of Peace: Accounting for Sustainability

Shakespeare and Religious War: New Developments on the Italian Sources of Twelfth Night

'Thou Laidst No Sieges to the Music-Room': Anatomizing Wars, Staging Battles

Shakespearian Narratives of War: Trauma, Repetition and Metaphor

War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642-1649

Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War and Cabaret

The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942)

The Lion and the Lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II

Dividing to Conquer or Joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare's Lady Anne (and Woolf's Three Guineas) in the Wake of #MeToo

The Homeland of Coriolanus: War Homecomings between Shakespeare's Stage and Current Complex TV

Scholarly Method, Truth and Evidence in Shakespearian Textual Studies

Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar

Ancient Aesthetics and Current Conflicts: Indian Rasa Theory and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014)

Failure to Thrive

Tippett's Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden

Tautological Character: Troilus and Cressida and the Problems of Personation

'Rude Wind': King Lear - Canonicity versus Physicality

Content but Also Unwell: Distributed Character and Language in The Merchant of Venice

Autistic Culture, Shakespeare therapy and the Hunter Heartbeat Method

The Senecan Tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night

Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018

Stephen Purcell, London Productions

Paul Prescott, Productions Outside London.

Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 2017

The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies

1. Critical Studies

2. Shakespeare in Performance

3. Editions and Textual Studies

Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 72

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Oct 2019).

ISBN:

9781108602433

1108602436

9781108605960

1108605966

9781108588072

1108588077