Shakespeare and the Second World War : Memory, Culture, Identity / Irena Makaryk, Marissa McHugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Makaryk, Irena.

McHugh, Marissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1800-1950.

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

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442698383

1442698381

9781442698376

1442698373

OCLC:

821216829