Memorialising Shakespeare

Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-19
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt452 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Shakespeare Studies
Antal sidor321
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030840150

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Edmund G. C. King is a Lecturer in English at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. A book historian with a speciality in the history of reading, his published work has appeared in Shakespeare (2014), Book History (2013), the Yearbook of English Studies (2015), and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio (2016). Monika Smialkowska is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University, UK. Her current research interests lie in post-renaissance adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare. Her published work has appeared in Critical Survey (2010), Shakespeare (2011, 2014), The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, Volume Two: The World’s Shakespeare, 1660-Present (2016), and Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland (2021).

1. Introduction: Memorialising Shakespeare, Memorialising Ourselves; Monika Smialkowska and Edmund G. C. King.- 2. From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading Soldier during the First World War; Edmund G. C. King.- 3. A Greenwich Night’s Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in Post-Armistice Britain; Kurt Schreyer.- 4. Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Tercentenary in Egypt; Karma Sami and Monika Smialkowska.- 5. Divergence and Convergence: The ‘Universal’ versus the National Bard; Irena R. Makaryk.- 6. French Shakespeare: From Victor Hugo to Patrice Chéreau; Dominique Goy-Blanquet.- 7. Canonising Cleopatra? Shakespeare400 and the Library, Lovers, and Saints of Alexandria; Katherine Hennessey.- 8. Citizen of the world, or citizen of nowhere? Shakespeare Lives in China in 2016; Duncan Lees.- 9. Commemorating Shakespeare through Dance and Music, 1964–2016; ElizabethKlett.- 10. Curating Shakespeare in the North; Adam Hansen.- 11. ‘The Conceit of This Inconstant Stay’: Exhibiting Shakespeares in Eugene, Oregon; Lara Bovilsky.- 12. Afterword; Ton Hoenselaars.

“Edmund G. C. King and Monika Smialkowska’s volume is both timely and very welcome. The editors have done an excellent job of assembling a set of contributors who come at the business of memorialization from a variety of different perspectives … . The volume is comprehensive, wide-ranging, and substantial. … King and Smialkowska are to be highly commended for producing this immensely valuable contribution to Shakespeare Studies.” (Andrew Murphy, Modern Language Review, Vol. 120 (1), January, 2025)