| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy / R. King & P. Franssen -- The "Disciplines of War": Elizabethan War Manuals and Shakespeare's Tragicomic Vision / R. King -- War in Shakespeare's Edward III / E. Caldwell -- Shakespeare and Peace / T. Kullmann -- Some Social Costs of War / R. Morse -- PART II: RHETORIC OF WAR -- Henry V and the Performance of War / S. Fraser -- Drums and Roses? The Tragicomedy of War in All's Well That Ends Well / H. Wilcox -- Political Speech and the Wars in King John / D. Chetrinescu -- "Faking It": Persuasion and the Renaissance Military Subject; S. Barker -- PART III: TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION -- Religion and War in Romanian Translations of Henry V / M. Nicolaescu -- Shakespeare's Coriolanus as Staged in Heiner Müller's Germania 3 / R. Ledebur -- "Something is rotten" / N. Hansen -- Never-ending Conflict: Man (and woman) as Death Bearer in Testori's Macbetto / C. Dente -- PART IV WAR & TIME INTERPRETATIONS -- The Nightmare of Indifference: Shakespeare's Sonnet 121 and the War in former Yugoslavia / I. Lupic -- Whose Triumph?: The Taming of the Shrew in Berlin during World War II / Z.M̀rkus -- "So the Falklands. So Agincourt. Fuck the Frogs": Michael Bogdanov's English Shakespeare Company's Wars of the Roses / D. Carnegie -- Meditations in a Time of (Displaced) War: Henry V, Money, and the Ethics of Performing History / D. Henderson |
| 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 ₁iron curtain₂. The book ranges from Shakespeare₂s 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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War in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History
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Literature and history -- Great Britain
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Literature.
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Literature and history
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Political and social views
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Politics and literature
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War in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
King, Ros, editor.
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Franssen, Paul, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780230228276 |
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0230228275 |
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9786612197765 |
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6612197765 |
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