Shakespeare and the Second World War : memory, culture, identity

9781442644021

xii, 338 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Theatre, war, memory, and culture / Irena R. Makaryk
German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the war / Werner Habicht
Shakespearean negotiations in the perpetrator society: German productions of The merchant of Venice during the second world war / Zeno Ackermann
Shylock, Palestine, and the second world war / Mark Bayer
'Caesar's word against the world': Caesarism and the discourses of empire / Nancy Isenberg
Shakespeare and censorship during the second World War: Othello in occupied Greece / Tina Krontiris
'In this hour of history: amidst these tragic events' - Polish Shakespeare during the second world war / Krystyna Kujawinśka Courtney
Pasternak's Shakespeare in wartime Russia / Aleksei Semenenko
Shakespeare as an icon of the enemy culture in wartime Japan, 1937-1945 / Ryuta Minami
'Warlike noises': jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese wars / Alexander C.Y. Huang
Shakespeare, Stratford, and the second world war / Simon Barker
Rosalinds, violas, and other sentimental friendships: the Osiris players and Shakespeare, 1939-1945 / Peter Billingham
Maurice Evans's G.I. Hamlet: analogy, authority, and adaptation / Anne Russell
The war at 'home': representations of Canada and of the second world war in Star crossed / Marissa McHugh
Shakespeare's merchant of Venice in Auschwitz / Tibor Egervari
Appropriating Shakespeare in defeat: Hamlet and the contemporary Polish vision of war / Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams
Appendix: List of productions

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