Wartime Shakespeare : performing narratives of conflict / Amy Lidster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lidster, Amy, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

War and literature.

War and theater.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : a history of wartime production and reception

Royal Shakespeare : commemorating conflict during the Seven Years' War (1756-63)

Shakespeare as propaganda : British military performances during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83)

'Patriotic' Shakespeare and dialectics of conflict during the French Revolutionary-Napoleonic wars (1792-1815)

Interlude : nostalgia, nation building and the Russian War (1853-56)

Fragmenting Shakespeare(s) and the First World War (1914-18)

'What we are fighting for' : the state mobilization of Shakespeare during the Second World War (1939-45)

'Anti-war' Shakespeare : just war theory, sponsorship, and the impact of theatre during the Iraq War (2003-11)

Conclusion : wartime Shakespeare

'a playable surface'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lidster, Amy, 1986- Wartime Shakespeare

ISBN:

9781009356060

1009356062

OCLC:

1381312976