Title No Hamlets : German Shakespeare from Friedrich Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt / Andreas Höfele

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations Summary No Hamlets' is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Hofele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over 'inner emigration' and concluding with Carl Schmitt's Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highly political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt's largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. 0Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. 'No Hamlets' brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Hofele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Germany Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence. Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985 fast Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject German literature -- History and criticism Criticism -- Germany Art appreciation Criticism German literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Germany Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191787997 019178799X

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