Shakespeare at War: A Material History

ISBN-13: 9781316517482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Amy Lidster; Sonia Massai

Opis

This first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime tells a fresh and compelling story about how he has been 'recruited' across centuries of military activity, drawing upon scholarly expertise in Shakespeare and War Studies, first-hand experience from public military figures and insights from prominent theatre directors.

Recenzje

'I was drawn into this absorbing book, a wide-ranging collection of essays which bear out what the editors say about Shakespeare's plays being 'embedded' in our culture. The collection admits a marked plurality of voices and histories, reminding us that the past is altered by the present, just as the present is directed by the past. As warfare changes, so do we; and as we change, so too, perhaps, does Shakespeare.' Hugh Quarshie

Spis treści

Introduction: A Material History Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai; 1. 'The truth for which we are fighting': David Garrick's The Tempest (1756) and inclusive Britishness during the seven years' war Sonia Massai; 2. The seven years' war (1756–1763) and Garrick's Shakespearean Nationalism Jonathan Crimmins; 3. Revolutionary Shakespeare: Julius Caesar and the rhetorical fashioning of ideologies of freedom Esther B. Schupak; 4. Hamlet mobilized: political parody during the Napoleonic wars Amy Lidster; 5. Shakespeare, the north-west passage, and the Russian war Irena R. Makaryk; 6. Now for our Irish wars': Shakespeare, colonialism, and nationalism in Ireland Andrew Murphy; 7. Shakespeare and the survival of middle England: weekly journals, 1914–18 Stuart Sillars; 8. Ellen Terry stars at the Shakespeare hut Ailsa Grant Ferguson; 9. The 1916 Shakespeare tercentenary at N˚ 1 camp in Calais Monika Smialkowska; 10. Shakespeare does his bit for the war effort: authorship and material culture in the 1917 British Red Cross Shakespeare exhibition Clara Calvo; 11. Germanizing Shakespeare during the First World War Marius S. Ostrowski; 12. Readers and rebels: Ireland, Shakespeare and the 1916 easter rising Katherine Hennessey; 13. Forgotten histories: the barnbow lasses in Maggie Smales's Henry V (upstage centre, 41 Monkgate, York, 2015) an interview with Maggie Smales; 14. Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war': counter-punching against appeasement Robert Sawyer; 15. 'Precurse of feared events': a pre-war hamlet at Elsinore, 1939 Anne Sophie Refskou; 16. But what are we fighting for? The role of Shakespeare and the arts in wartime Britain Ros King; 17. Henry V and the battle of powerscourt Edward Corse; 18. Unser Shakespeare in Nazi Germany Richard Ned Lebow; 19. Framing the Jew: Julia Pascal's The Shylock play (Arcola theatre, London, 2007) an interview with Julia Pascal; 20. G. Wilson Knight's 'Royal Propaganda' in 'This Sceptred Isle' (1941) Reiko Oya; 21. Shakespeare's desert camouflage Ramona Wray; 22. 'May I with right and conscience make this claim?': Testing the 'just war' tradition in Nicholas Hytner's Henry V (National Theatre, 2003) An interview with Nicholas Hytner; 23. Henry V and the invasion of Iraq Tim Collins; 24. Who pays the price: Maria Aberg on Roy Williams's days of significance (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2007) an interview with Maria Aberg; 25. 'Mere prattle, without practice, is all his soldiership': shaping the soldier in Nicholas Hytner's Othello (National Theatre, 2013) Jonathan Shaw; 26. 'Thou hast set me on the Rack': torture and modern warfare in Iqbal Khan's Othello (Royal Shakespeare company, 2015) an interview with Iqbal Khan; Afterword Emma Smith.