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Shakespeare and the Second World War : Memory, Culture, Identity
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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 to...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Irena Makaryk, Marissa McHugh
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1442698381, 9781442698383, 1442644028, 1442698373, 9781442698376
- OCLC
- ocn821216829, on1004868247, ocn899225905
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- 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